Schlink, Bernhard.

The reader / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. - 1st American ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c1997. - 218 p. ; 20 cm.

Schoolboy Michael Berg, 15, meets an older woman and they have an affair, which she breaks off and disappears. Seven years later Berg, now a law student attending a trial, sees her in the dock, accused in a crime dating back to World War II and the death camp at Auschwitz. By a German writer.

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World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Fiction.
War crime trials--Fiction.


Germany--Fiction.


Love stories.
Psychological fiction.

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