The Reader - Hardcover

Schlink, Bernhard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861590636 ISBN 13: 9781861590633

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The novel traces the relationship between a German lawyer, Michael and an older woman, Hanna. Beginning with their brief affair when he is fifteen in post-war Germany, going on to narrate his discovery as a law student that Hanna had been a guard at a satellite camp attatched to Aushwitz - for which she is imprisoned. Schlink explores questions of guilt, deciet, betrayal and memory, against the backdrop of Germany's complex and equivocal response to the Holocaust. It is an immensely subtle and morally sophisticated novel, constantly playing with thereader's sympathies in a way that is profoundly thought-provoking and disturbing

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Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1861590636
• ISBN 13: 9781861590633
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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