Description
Jenny Erpenbeck—winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos—presents in this collection of essays, speeches, and literary meditations her most autobiographical and most directly personal account of the relationship between German history, literary life, and the formation of a writer who grew up on one side of the Berlin Wall and now inhabits a very different world. Written with the formal intelligence and the genuine philosophical depth that characterize all of Erpenbeck's finest work, this is essential reading for every admirer of her extraordinary literary achievement and every person interested in the intersection of political history and literary formation. A significant and valuable collection.
