EAN: 9781399603232

SCHLINK BERNHARD THE READER

The 30th anniversary edition of the classic international bestseller  with a new afterword from
Bernhard Schlink   'A masterly work. Read this and read it again' - Observer    'A thriller  a
love story and a deeply moving examination of German conscience' - Independent    'Examines the
nature of understanding and tests the limits of forgiveness' - Times   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 realise 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.   
The Reader is an international bestseller and a true modern classic  the essential Holocaust
novel  examining the gap between Germany's pre- and post-war generations  between the guilty
and the innocent  and between words and silence. 'For generations to come people will be
marvelling over The Reader' - Evening Standard

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