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About This Book:

Title: The Reader

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1997
Paperback, 1998
Audio Cassette, 1999
Hardcover, 1999
Hardcover, 1999
Paperback, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Compact Disc, 2008
Paperback, 2008
Paperback, 2008

Synopsis
A teenage boy named Michael is befriended by Hanna, a mysterious older married woman. Years later as a law student, he attends a criminal trial in which Hanna stands accused. What emerges is not only Hanna's terrible crime, but an even more dire secret that involves Michael himself. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Weight:        0.6 Pounds
Height:         8.3 Inches
Width:          5.3 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



Publisher Notes
First Line: When I was fifteen, I got hepatitis.
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.

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.



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   bueno book,   February 25, 2005
Reviewer: cynthia from oceanside, California, United States
I think this book was awsome it was so incredible it was something i had never read before it was so detailed. It was a verry good story just the fact of him putting that conflict of an older women with a younger boy. well what through me off was the end i really didnt get it well other than that it was great bye bye

   "Beatiful and morally devastating",   May 20, 2003
Reviewer: Bou-Boule from Saint-Laurent, Canada
Suggestive, challenging and ultimately hopeful, The Reader had been the book of the year 1995. It's a novel about simplicity, love, horror, secrets and drama.The Reader is one of richest and overwelming book. This novel is recommended to be read again and again because you might not get enough of it. A lot of interruptions, questions to ask... mysteriously puzzling! The Reader is to be suggested to all readers.



Industry Reviews
"The best novel I read this year....An unforgettable short tale about love, horror and mercy in Germany before and after 1945. Word of mouth about this novel ran all over Europe before the publicity machine caught up."
"Schlink's daring fusion of 19th-century post-romantic, post-fairy-tale models with the awful history of the 20th-century makes for a moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful work."
(07/27/1997)
"Schlink tells this story with marvellous directness and simplicity, his writing stripped bare of any of the standard gimmicks of dramatization."
(08/20/1997)
"Part of the artistry of this novel lies in its limpid, understated realism, the tangible details....The integrity of THE READER lies with the narrator's refusal to assign blame according to initial, obvious interpretation; indeed, as the novel develops, its theme becomes the always-shifting landscape of guilt and shame."
(08/31/1997)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Reader and it was written by Bernhard Schlink. This edition of The Reader is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is February 1999 and it has a suggested retail price of $13.95. There are pages in the book and it was published by Random House Inc. The 10 digit ISBN is 0375707972 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780375707971. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.