Schlink, Bernhard

The reader / Bernhard Schlink - New York : Vintage Books , 1997, c1995 - 218 p. ; 21 cm

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.


Translated from the German to English

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Illiterate persons--Fiction
Seduction--Fiction
War crime trials--Fiction
Law students --Fiction
Man-woman relationships --Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 --Atrocities --Fiction
Post-World War II


Germany--Fiction

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