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KAIROS

JENNY ERPENBECK

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Publisher:
GRANTA
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-1-78378-613-8
Pages:
304
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Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exer[Bokinfo].

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