The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International)
by Bernhard Schlink
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Author: Bernhard SchlinkEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-30
ISBN: 0307473465
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9780307473462
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A good read on an unusual theme but disappointingly slight
Summary: 3 Stars
Post-war Germany is the setting for this novel. The protagonist, a 15 year old school boy at the beginning of the story, meets and begins a love affair with an older woman. Part of the ritual of their meetings becomes the reading aloud of works of literature that the boy is studying. A conflict of time and loyalties appears to end the relationship and the woman leaves town. Years later, the youth, now studying law, finds himself in a courtroom observing a war crimes' trial in which his old lover is a defendant. Contact of a sort is resumed and an unexpected twist to the woman's tale is revealed. A slightly disappointing book after the reviews I had heard about it - the conflicts suffered by the young man are well described (between his older lover, his studies and his young friends and later between his affection for the woman and knowledge of her wartime past) but the woman's motivations are never well understood, perhaps because the book is written from the man's perspective.
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