'Kairos', written by the German author Jenny Erpenbeck has been named the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
The novel is the story of a destructive affair between a young woman and an older man in 1980s East Berlin. It intertwines the personal and the political as the two lovers embody East Germany’s crushed idealism, with both holding on to the past long after they know they should move on.
