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050 00 $aPT2680.L54$bV6713 1997
082 00 $a833/.914$221
100 1 $aSchlink, Bernhard.
240 10 $aVorleser.$lEnglish.
245 14 $aThe reader /$cBernhard Schlink ; translated from
the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$cc1997.
300 $a218 p. ;$c20 cm.
520 $aThe Reader is both a literary surprise and a
moral challenge: a riveting, provocative, and deeply moving
novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a passionate,
clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what
happens to them both when the secrets in her past are
revealed. Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg becomes ill on the
way home from school. A woman takes care of him. Later, the
boy arrives at her home with a bunch of flowers to thank
her. And then comes back again. Hanna is the first woman he
has ever desired. But there is something slightly off-key
about her. His questions about her family and her life go
unanswered. One day Hanna simply disappears. Michael's life
goes on, but he can't forget her.
520 8 $aYears 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 so passionately is
a criminal. Much about her behavior during the trial makes
no sense. But then, suddenly and terribly, it does - Hanna
is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is
also desperately concealing an even deeper secret. As the
past erupts into the present - both Michael's past with
Hanna, and the past of Germany itself - Michael must accept
that he will never be free of either of them.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$xFiction.
650 0 $aWar crime trials$xFiction.
651 0 $aGermany$xFiction.
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd.
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcsh.
700 1 $aJaneway, Carol Brown.
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