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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
2.0

Kairos tells the story of an age gap relationship between a married man and a young theatre student, and follows it's grim progression into a toxic vortex.

I understand that it's as much a story of power, art, culture, and the dissolution of East Germany, but without much prior context for this part of history, much of that went over my head.

I found it fairly unpleasant although the writing was excellent.