'Kairos' is a novel written by the famous German Novelist Jenny Erpenbeck. It was translated into English by Michael Hoffman. It is about life in East Germany in the 1980s, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and its effects. its short listed for International booker prize in 2024.

In this episode, Marina Sofia talks about the novel in detail, having read both the German and the English versions.

Marina Sofia is a reputed translator and co-founder of Corylus Books, a publishing house that translates crime fiction. She is an avid reader and blogger.

Born in East Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck the author of the novel, is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. She won many awards and her work is translated into more than Thirty languages. Michael Hoffman is a German-born poet, Translator and critic. The 'Guardian has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English."

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