Books
by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Kairos |
An award-winning translation from the German, which interrogates through the experiences of a young woman, an unexpected insight into what it meant to be East-German at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What on the surface appears to be a fairly straightforward coming of age tale is revealed to contain layers of manipulation and intrigue. Ultimately, the protagonist wonders, and the reader is cleverly asked to consider, who exactly was freed from the constraints imposed by the communist State, its citizens, or the proprietors in the West, doubling the size of their potential market.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 114 Autumn 2024) |
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