February Translation Book Club
Schedule
Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2 | Montreal, QC
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Join us for our next Translation Book Club meeting to discuss Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Michael Hofmann. This event is open to all, so feel free to show up if you've read the book and want to talk about it; and if you haven't picked it up yet, but would like to participate, we have copies available in store! Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door.ABOUT THE BOOK
An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world—the socialist GDR—melts away. As the Times Literary Supplement writes: “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of his period between states and ideologies.”
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