the reader by bernhard schlink free ebook

For a time, the two become passionate lovers.

Falling ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. As in his previous works, Schlink’s protagonist is a flawed character who elicits the reader’s understanding but not affection-until the poignant denouement. Set in postwar Germany, The Reader is a provocative, morally challenging, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a clandestine love affair with a mysterious older woman. Schlinks first novel, The Reader (1997), became a U.S. Debauer’s youth, failed career and love life play out against authoritatively detailed scenes of Nazi degeneracy, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the stark differences between East and West Germany. Bernhard Schlink, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator, trans. , offers tantalizing clues to a deeper mystery, that of the identity of Debauer’s father, reported dead after the war.

This mysterious work, with similarities to The Odyssey The title refers to a pulp novel discovered in fragments by the narrator, Peter Debauer, and to Debauer’s quest to find the book’s pseudonymous author, who seems to have an uncanny knowledge of the conditions and landmarks of Debauer’s own youth in postwar Germany. Save CDN 11.01 (50) includes free international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet. From the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novel, THE READER, a mesmerising collection of stories. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate. The Reader eBook : Schlink, Bernhard, Carol Brown Janeway: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. Read 'Summer Lies' by Prof Bernhard Schlink available from Rakuten Kobo.

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. That book, and his next, a short story collection, raised moral questions about Germany right after WWII his latest, following two crime novels, takes up that line of inquiry and may be his most powerful and disquieting. An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust.

The reader by bernhard schlink free ebook