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Jenny Erpenbeck

Born 1967 · Germany

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    International Booker 2024 · Winner

    Kairos

    Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck · 54 when first published

    Novel · 293 pages · Love, Historical, Politics

    Translated by Michael Hofmann

    AI-generated summary:In East Berlin in the late 1980s, nineteen-year-old Katharina meets Hans, a married man in his mid-fifties, by chance, and for years neither can break away from the other.

    Also: Warwick Prize 2024 shortlist

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2018 · Shortlist

    Go, Went, Gone

    Gehen, ging, gegangen

    Jenny Erpenbeck · 48 when first published

    Novel · 286 pages · Migration, Politics

    Translated by Susan Bernofsky

    AI-generated summary:Richard, a retired professor in Berlin, comes across African refugees protesting on Oranienplatz and decides to look for answers to his own questions about time, loss and legacy among these young men condemned to wait.

    Also: Deutscher Buchpreis 2015 shortlist