International Booker Prize Winner 2024. The story takes place over the course of 24 hours, and clocks in at just 136 pages, making it. Jenny erpenbeck’s novel “kairos” wins the 2024 international booker prize, depicting a complex love story amidst east germany’s final years.

Kairos, a novel about a love affair between a younger woman and older man in 1980s germany, has won this year’s international booker prize. The booker prize is awarded annually for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the english language, which was published in the united kingdom and/or ireland.