The Reader
By Bernhard Schlink
"The Reader" was published by Pantheon Books in 1997 - New York, it has 218 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The Reader” Metadata:
- Title: The Reader
- Author: Bernhard Schlink
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 218
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: New York
“The Reader” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Fiction - Romance - Germany - World War 2 - Holocaust - war crimes - Atrocities - World War, 1939-1945 - War crime trials - History - Man-woman relationship - Nazis - Fiction, psychological - Fiction, historical - Germany, fiction - World war, 1939-1945, fiction - Activities - Large type books - nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-12-21 - New York Times bestseller - Guilt - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germans - Psychology - German language materials - Love stories - Psychological fiction - Fiction, historical, general - Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 - Procesos por crimenes de guerra - World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 - Novela - Atrocidades - Man-woman relationships - Analfabetismo - Seduction - Novela psicológica - Law students - Procesos por crímenes de guerra - Illiterate persons - Relaciones hombre-mujer - Seducción - Ficción - Schuldgevoelens - Verraad - Romans en novellen ; vertaald - Trials (Murder) - Nazisme - Romans - Littérature allemande - Roman allemand - Translations into English - Romance fiction - Study and teaching - Activity programs - Book club in a bag
- Places: West Germany - Auschwitz - Germany
- Time: 1950s - 1980s
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 218 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL656427M - OL14871157W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 36207558
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 97001511
- ISBN-10: 0679442790
- All ISBNs: 0679442790
AI-generated Review of “The Reader”:
Snippets and Summary:
WHEN I was fifteen, I got hepatitis.
When I was fifteen, I got hepatitis. It started in the fall and lasted until spring. As the old year darkened and turned colder, I got weaker and weaker. Things didn't start to improve until the new year. January was warm, and my mother moved my bed out onto the balcony. I saw sky, sun, clouds, and heard the voices of children playing in the courtyard. As dusk came one evening in February, there was the sound of a blackbird singing.
"The Reader" Description:
The Open Library:
The 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. Years 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.
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