by Bernhard Schlink · Edicoes Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724120096
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«O Leitor» is a novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink, published by Edicoes Asa in paperback (143 pages, in Portuguese).
Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins a relationship with Hanna, an older woman; he reads aloud to her and she listens. Hanna disappears without saying goodbye, and Michael sees her again years later, on trial for her past as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. The novel explores guilt, shame, and the moral legacy of postwar Germany.
The Portuguese edition dates from 1998; the novel was originally published in 1995 under the title «Der Vorleser» and was translated by Fátima Freire de Andrade.
For readers of historical fiction and European literature, with an interest in the memory of the Holocaust and postwar Germany; common in book clubs.
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
