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Bernhard Schlink |
| Amours
en Fuite by
Bernhard Schlink (Paperback) |
| Der
Vorleser
by
Bernhard Schlink (Paperback - June 1999) |
| Die
Gordische Schleife by Bernhard Schlink (Paperback - May 2000) |
 Flights
of Love : Stories by Bernhard Schlink, John E. Woods (Hardcover
- October 2001) |
| Selbs
Betrug by
Bernhard Schlink, Berhard Schlink (Paperback - April
2000) Editions: Paperback
| Unknown
Binding |
 The
Reader by
Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
(Paperback - March 1999) Editions: Hardcover
| Paperback
| Audio
Cassette (Abridged) | Paperback
(Large Print) | Digital
(Microsoft Reader) | Digital
(Adobe Reader) Oprah Book Club® Selection,
February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully
translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The
Readeris a
brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael
Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an
enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she
disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror,
he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past,
and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As
Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question:
What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We
should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not
compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion,
shame, and guilt? To what purpose?" |
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