Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (translator) Resigned to his fate

Resigned to his fate

experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain

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Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt

and semi-retired lifelong academics

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (translator) Resigned to his fate*Used very good condition Published by Granta Publications 2023 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