Join the Ohio Center for the Book at Clevo Books (1026 Euclid Ave), a downtown Cleveland bookstore specializing in translated works of literature, for a discussion on Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann). 

From the publisher: "Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears."