by Bernhard Schlink · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753823293
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"The Reader" is Bernhard Schlink's contemporary fiction novel, published by W&N in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Michael Berg is fifteen when he begins a clandestine relationship with Hanna, an older woman who fascinates and disconcerts him. Years later, as a law student, he attends a trial for Nazi crimes and recognizes Hanna in the dock, who hides a secret that will change his view of the past. A novel about love, guilt and memory in postwar Germany.
Film tie-in edition of the movie starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, with English translation by Carol Brown Janeway. Original German title: 'Der Vorleser' (1995).
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in postwar Germany, collective guilt and the moral dilemmas of the Holocaust.
