Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
“A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel.” —Los Angeles Times 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.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Published: 03/07/1999
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780375707971
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.10″ W
Award: 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee – Fiction
Award: 1998 Boston Book Review Winner – Fiction
About the Author
BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practicing judge, he is also the author of several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.
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