by Bernhard Schlink · Ballantine · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679442790
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«The Reader» is Bernhard Schlink's novel published by Ballantine in hardcover, with 218 pages and text in English.
Michael Berg meets Hanna, an older woman who cares for him when he falls ill. They begin a clandestine relationship that she ends by disappearing. Years later, Michael, now a law student, recognizes her among the defendants in a trial for World War II crimes. The novel interweaves love, guilt and memory in the face of the German past.
English version of «Der Vorleser» (1995), translated by Carol Brown Janeway. First American edition.
For readers of literary and historical fiction and reading groups interested in the moral dilemmas of postwar Germany.
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.
