German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize.

“The book seems to me like a coin, which has a personal story – heads, as it were – on one side, and tails, the emblem of the state, on the other,” Hofmann said about Kairos. “It keeps being spun into the air, and it comes down heads, it comes down tails.”

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