June Book Club: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

This month's book club pick is Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. You can buy your $5 tickets in-store on the night.

From an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.

From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.

As usual, there will be drinks and the $5 ticket price is redeemable against purchases made in-store on the night.

19 High Street, Auckland

Thursday 20th June 2024

18:00-19:00