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Berlín Este, 1986. Un día de noviembre Katharina, de diecinueve años, conoce en un autobús a Hans, un escritor ya entrado en la cincuentena, casado y con un hijo adolescente. Inician una relación amorosa compleja y no necesariamente idílica. Mientras tanto, el bloque comunista empieza a tambalearse, y la RDA acabará colapsando, con la icónica imagen de la caída del Muro. Se abre un tiempo de esperanzas, pero también de incertidumbres. Un tiempo de zozobra y desconcierto, que cada uno de los personajes vivirá de forma muy distinta por la diferencia de edad que los separa. Huyendo de arquetipos y clichés, Jenny Erpenbeck construye una historia de amor llena de altibajos y no exenta de manipulaciones y toxicidad. Y al mismo tiempo traza una crónica repleta de aristas y matices sobre un momento crucial de paso, en el que una sociedad represiva pero también protectora se convierte en otra libre pero también agresivamente competitiva.
East Berlin, 1986. One day in November, nineteen-year-old Katharina meets Hans on a bus, a writer in his fifties, married with a teenage son. They begin a complex and not necessarily idyllic love relationship. Meanwhile, the communist bloc begins to falter, and the GDR will eventually collapse, with the iconic image of the fall of the Wall. A time of hope opens, but also uncertainty. A time of anxiety and confusion, which each of the characters will experience in a very different way due to the difference in age that separates them. Running away from archetypes and clichés, Jenny Erpenbeck builds a love story full of ups and downs and not without manipulation and toxicity. At the same time, she traces a chronicle full of edges and nuances about a crucial moment of passage, in which a repressive but also protective society becomes a free but also aggressively competitive one.
East Berlin, 1986. One day in November, nineteen-year-old Katharina meets Hans on a bus, a writer in his fifties, married with a teenage son. They begin a complex and not necessarily idyllic love relationship. Meanwhile, the communist bloc begins to falter, and the GDR will eventually collapse, with the iconic image of the fall of the Wall. A time of hope opens, but also uncertainty. A time of anxiety and confusion, which each of the characters will experience in a very different way due to the difference in age that separates them. Running away from archetypes and clichés, Jenny Erpenbeck builds a love story full of ups and downs and not without manipulation and toxicity. At the same time, she traces a chronicle full of edges and nuances about a crucial moment of passage, in which a repressive but also protective society becomes a free but also aggressively competitive one.