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May Reads 🌸 Today we’re dipping into the archive a May Reads 🌸 Today we’re dipping into the archive and revisiting Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, the powerful and challenging winner of The International Booker Prize 2024. A coincidental meeting on an East Berlin bus changes the life of 19-year-old Katharina forever. Across the steamy bus, she catches the eye of Hans, a married author and journalist 34 years her senior. They begin an intense clandestine affair, but as passion turns to obsession, the relationship descends into something dark and inescapable, a drama played out in parallel with the fall of the Berlin Wall. See link in bio for our review of this prize-winning novel by one of Germany’s literary superstars | 📷 @grantabooks | #Bookstoker #bookrecs #bookswelove #booktok #eastgermany #germanliterature #jennyerpenbeck #readthisbook
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Mr Burman is a middle-aged widower, still grieving Mr Burman is a middle-aged widower, still grieving the loss of his wife, Ada, in a car accident. By day he teaches English at a local high school, by night he grapples with the effects of his blood-pressure medication and worrying about his virtual estrangement from daughter, Leila. This low-key existence is shattered when one of Mr Burman’s ex-students, Raf, attempts to blow up St Paul’s cathedral. In Your Life Without Me by James Meek, we follow Mr Burman’s journey to London, where he is intent on visiting Raf in custody and uncovering the truth, in a richly metaphorical story of loss and the passage of time. See link in bio for our review | @canongatebooks | #Bookstoker #bookclubreads #bookrecs #bookswelove #canongatebooks #jamesmeek #litfic #newfiction #readthisbook
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