Too cold and bleak for me
KairosThis won the Booker last year and I cannot dispute the quality of the prose and its translation. But I found all the characters to be morally bankrupt, and the story dry and soulless. With a setting in East Berlin acadaemia there is no place for beauty or fun or warmth - everything is intense and serious and the humourless love affair between a young girl and an older lecturer is confined to a grey city and grey apartments and offices. Not my cup of tea and again I gave up on it before half way through it. But it won the Booker ………