The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage International)

by Bernhard Schlink

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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
  • ISBN10 0307454894
  • ISBN13 9780307454898
  • Publish Date 25 November 2008 (first published 1 June 1997)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English