EAN: 9780753804704

BERNHARD SCHLINK - GEBRAUCHT THE READER (PHOENI...

An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal  guilt and memory against the
background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller.For 15-year-old Michael Berg  a chance
meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is
Hanna  and before long they embark on a passionate  clandestine love affair which leaves
Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later  as a law
student observing a trial in Germany  Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock
is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does
not make sense. But then suddenly  and terribly  it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer
for a horrible crime  she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.'A tender 
horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction. A
thriller  a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' INDEPENDENT

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