‘Hell’ would certainly cover it, though ... I interviewed Jenny Erpenbeck, who in her non-fiction and award-winning novels such as The End of Days and Kairos, has written better than any other ...

"There is a feeling almost that we are invisible," says Michael Hofmann, who has translated many German novels into English and who last year won the Booker International Prize with German author ...

Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is set in the tumultuous era of World War II, and painted on the backdrop of conflict between the GDR (German Democratic Republic) of the Soviet bloc and FRG (Federal ...

This masterful novel by Jenny Erpenbeck is gripping, intimate and more than worthy of its International Booker award. Whether personal or political, it is not easy to let go of the past.

The newest winner of the International Booker Prize, Kairos by German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Michael Hofmann (who is often considered one of the greatest translators alive), is ...

German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize for the novel Kairos, writes Edward Sugden. In relentless, unflinching present tense sentences ...

Jenny Erpenbeck, a German author, has won the International Booker Prize this year, for a compelling love story. The name of her book is Kairos, and Erpenbeck shares the award with the translator of ...