The Reader (Vintage International) - Softcover

Schlink, Bernhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307454894 ISBN 13: 9780307454898

Verlag: Vintage Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Bernhard Schlink

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Críticas

"A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." --Los Angeles Times"Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful. . . . [The Reader] leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart." --The New York Times Book Review"Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex. . . . Mr. Schlink tells his story with marvelous directness and simplicity." --The New York Times"Haunting. . . . What Schlink does best, what makes this novel most memorable, are the small moments of highly charged eroticism." --Francine Prose, Elle

Reseña del editor

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307454894
• ISBN 13: 9780307454898
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224