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Earlier this week, Google announced its partnership with California-based Kairos Power, in which Google plans to buy power produced from small nuclear reactors built by Kairos.

The company says the agreement with Kairos Power will see it start using the first reactor this decade and bring more online by 2035.

Their novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.

Judges chose Kairos from a shortlist of six books and praised the "luminous prose" and rich quality of the translation.

"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.