The Reader
“Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex… Mr. Schlink tells this story with marvelous directness and simplicity, his writing stripped bare of any of the standard gimmicks of dramatization.” – The New York Times
“The best novel I read this year… an unforgettable short tale about love, horror and mercy.”
– Neil Ascherson, Independent on Sunday Books of the Year
“Breathtaking… a novel that sucks you in with its power, so that once you start to read, you cannot put it down. Truly exciting.” – Focus Munich
“One of the most successful, one of the richest, one of the most overwhelming novels I have read for a very long time… entirely new and profoundly original.” – Jorge Semprun, Le Journal du Dimanche
“Superb.” – Le Monde
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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. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna...
Author: Schlink Bernhard
Genre: Thriller
Number of pages: 148
Reading time: 2 h. 28 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
