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.