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Title: Reader

Author: Bernhard Schlink

ISBN: 9780375707971

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 218

Condition: Used Copy

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

“A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel.” —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover–then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.