"An utterly epic narrator - one of the most powerful voices in contemporary German-language literature." NZZ am Sonntag on Jenny ErpenbeckNineteen-year-old Katharina and Hans, a married man in his mid-fifties, meet in East Berlin in the late eighties, by chance, and cannot get away from each other for the next few years. Against the backdrop of the declining GDR and the upheaval after 1989, Jenny Erpenbeck tells in her unmistakable language of the abysses of happiness - of the path of two lovers in the borderland between truth and lies, of obsession and violence, hatred and hope. Everything in their lives turns into something lost in the very second it happens. The border is always just a moment.