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LONDON, United Kingdom - German writer Jenny Erpenbeck along with translator Michael Hofmann were on Tuesday named winners of the International Booker Prize for the novel " Kairos ".The book, originally written in German, tells the story of a young woman's "destructive affair" with an older man in 1980s East Berlin.
"It starts with love and passion, but it's at least as much about power, art and culture," she said."The self-absorption of the lovers, their descent into a destructive vortex, remains connected to the larger history of East Germany during this period, often meeting history at odd angles," she added.For Erpenbeck, who is also an opera director, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 represented a "breaking free".
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