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''For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink''s The Reader'' Evening Standard

For fifteen-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 another deep secret.

The Reader

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    A Paperback by Bernhard Schlink

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      Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2025
      ISBN13: 9781399603232, 978-1399603232
      ISBN10: 139960323X
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink''s The Reader'' Evening Standard

      For fifteen-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 another deep secret.

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