Stuart Taberner

Bernhard Schlink

The theme of the book is the Holocaust and questions of guilt, as it tells the tale of Michael Berg and his affair with Hanna Schmitz, who turns out to have been a guard at Auschwitz and who later hangs herself. This edition makes the German text accessible to students, providing the full German text, with a substantial Introduction, Commentary, Vocabulary and Bibliography in English. Bernhard Schlink's novel "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader") has sold over 500,000 copies in Germany, 750,000 in the USA, 200,000 in Britain, and 100,000 in France. It has been translated into 25 languages.

Der Vorleser

Iris van der zanden

I moved trough the world as if it had nothing to do with me nor i with it.

Perhaps he had been full of emotions as a boy and a young man, and by giving them no outlet had allowed them over the years to wither and die.

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