New York Times best-seller list and also became a choice for Oprah Winfreys book club. Yet this well-translated novel indisputably offers a philosophical look at the ""numbness"" that settled over German culture during the war and that (Schlink seems to say) infects it to this day. Bernhard Schlink: The Reader and Grete Weil: Last Trolley from. The Reader Bernhard Schlink Published byWeidenfeld & Nicolson History, 1998 ISBN 10: 0753810298ISBN 13: 9780753810293 Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - SoftcoverCondition: Very Good £ 2. Some readers may object to Schlink's insistently withheld moral judgments: he never treats Hanna as just a villain. 'Oprahs book club.' International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee, 1999 Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.
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Part Two opens at Hanna's trial 10 years later for war crimes: assigned by chance to observe the trial, Michael continues his strange role as her reader, sending her tapes in prison until, in Part Three, the two finally, and tragically, meet again. Publication date 1998 Topics World War, 1939-1945. His thank-you visit results in months of trysts the lovers develop a routine that involves Michael reading aloud from the German classics. World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Fiction, War crime trials - Fiction, War Crimes, Atrocities, War crime trials, Man-woman relationship - Fiction, Nazis - Fiction, Germany - Fiction, Germany, Germany - History - 1945-1955 - Fiction.
They meet in the 1950s, when he is 15: she rescues him when he falls ill in the street from the effects of hepatitis. This book has exploded onto the scene after being recommended for Oprahs Book Club.
The guilt that Michael Berg feels is the guilt of keeping the secrets of those who committed the.
Another in the spate of soul-searching post-Holocaust German novels that have made their way here, this elegant if derivative triptych chronicles the relationship of narrator Michael Berg, a young bourgeois man who becomes a legal historian, with working-class Hanna Schmitz, 20 years his senior and (as it turns out) a former SS officer. However, there is no need to read the novel, so feel free to proceed. Q&A with Bernhard Schlink, Oprah Winfrey Show, 2009.
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