![]() Leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Book Review 'Examines the nature of understanding and tests the limits of forgiveness. Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-08. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. 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. ![]() Published to tie-in with the Hollywood blockbuster THE READER starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet THE READER has become a literary sensation and international bestseller Published to critical acclaim across the world, it has been translated into 39 languages It has sold over 300,000 copies in Phoenix Paperback alone It reprints regularly - 30 times to date An Oprah Book Club selection Schlink has received exceptional reviews for his masterpiece: 'For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink's THE READER' Evening Standard 'A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding' Ruth Rendell 'A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel' LA Times 'Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful. Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany.
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