Name: The Reader
SKU: 1585956
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Author: Bernhard Schlink

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernhard Schlink

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

218

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13x1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

0375707972

ISBN13

9780375707971

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Reader "

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." --Los Angeles Times 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.

Bernhard Schlink

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Bernhard Schlink is a German writer and jurist. In 1998, he was appointed judge at the constitutional court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a professor of legal history at Humboldt University, Berlin, since January 2006.

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