Everything you need to understand or teach Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck.
In Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos, 19-year-old Katharina falls in love with Hans, a married man 34 years her senior. Failing to realize the dangers associated with this affair, Katharina convinces herself that her life has no meaning without Hans. Set in the late 1980s in East Germany and told from the third person point of view, the novel formally enacts the author's complex thematic explorations of the past and the future, power and control.
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