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The Reader by Carol Brown Janeway, Bernhard Schlink

ISBN: 9780753804704
Release Date: 01 Jun 1998
Average rating: (read by 120 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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 SATURDAY MAGAZINE

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	Houndy
	Rated it 1 months ago

Harrowing at times but utterly compelling, Herr Schlink has writen a book that speaks volumes about the human condition.
I was gripped from cover to cover and each time I read it I still am.

	reader32
	Rated it 1 months ago

This is an outstanding read that looks at the complexity of relationships, set in a post war Germany. It brings home still how close the world wars are still to our genereation.

	troublexwithxdreams
	Rated it 2 months ago

An excellent tale of love, horror, and the power of reading. Taking place in the generation after Nazi Germany, it asks the age old question, "What would you have done?"

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