![]() Leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Book Review 'Examines the nature of understanding and tests the limits of forgiveness. This year Bernhard Schlinks The Reader (1997 Der Vorleser 1995) turns twen-ty-one, a milestone in a cultural trajectory that shows no sign of weakening or waning. Bernhard Schlink burst onto the literary scene with the internationally best-selling Oprahs Book Club selection The Reader. ![]() ![]() For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. English 218 pages 20 cm At the age of fifteen, Michael Berg falls in love with a woman who disappears, and while observing a trial as a law student years later, he is shocked to discover the same woman as the defendant in a horrible crime 'Oprahs book club.' International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee, 1999 Accelerated Reader AR UG 6. Published to tie-in with the Hollywood blockbuster THE READER starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet THE READER has become a literary sensation and international bestseller Published to critical acclaim across the world, it has been translated into 39 languages It has sold over 300,000 copies in Phoenix Paperback alone It reprints regularly - 30 times to date An Oprah Book Club selection Schlink has received exceptional reviews for his masterpiece: 'For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink's THE READER' Evening Standard 'A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding' Ruth Rendell 'A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel' LA Times 'Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful. could write about the South Jesmyn Ward I got the book and read it. The Reader: A novel by Bernhard Schlink, Paperback Barnes & NobleĀ® INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
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