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Bernhard Schlink General Fiction, Compulsory Reading, Gift The Reader Books 208 pages 11.6 × 18.4 cm Published by Diogenes as Der Vorleser September 1995 Original title: Der Vorleser
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Bestseller On the way home, a fifteen-year-old boy called Michael Berg gets into difficulties. A woman in her mid-thirties helps him out. Some # 1 New York Times Bestseller time later, the boy takes her a bunch of flowers as a way of saying Spiegel Bestseller thank you. He visits her again. Hanna is the first woman he has ever desired, and a secret love begins. But there is something dark and mysterious about Hanna, and she reacts irritably to his questions Movie adaptations about who she is. One day she disappears. She vanishes from 2011: Das Wochenende Michael's life, but not from his thoughts. As a student of law he Director: Nina Grosse encounters Hanna again in court. The young man gets a shock when Cast: Katja Riemann, Sebastian Koch, Barbara he realises he has loved a criminal. He can see no rhyme nor reason in Auer the way Hanna behaves during the trial. That is, until the scales fall from his eyes. For Hanna is not only guilty of a cruel crime, she also 2009: The Reader has a desperately well-protected secret. The past is unveiled – Director: Stephen Daldry Michael's past love, and the past of Germany. Michael realises that Screenplay: David Hare he cannot escape from either of them. A woman who is difficult to Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, understand or accept, either for Michael or the reader. And the Hannah Herzsprung und Alexandra Maria Lara dilemma of a generation.
1 / 3 2015 288 pages Explorations 2021 368 pages The Granddaughter Photo: Gaby Gerster / © Diogenes Verlag Legion d’Honneur‹andtheItalian›GrinzaneCavourPrize‹. (Order ofMerit)1stClass‹,theFrench›Chevalierdansl’Ordredela and internationalprizesliketheGerman›Bundesverdienstkreuz worldwide renownasanauthor.Hehasbeenawardedwithnational into morethan50languagesandestablishedBernhardSchlink’s turned intoamoviebyStephenDaldryin2009,hasbeentranslated Berlin andNewYork.HisnovelTheReader,publishedin1995 Bernhard Schlink,bornnearBielefeldin1944,isalawyerandlives 2014 256 pages The WomanontheStairs 2021 96 pages The 20thofJuly Bestseller 2011 96 pages Thoughts onWriting 2020 240 pages Colours ofFarewell Bestseller 2010 288 pages Summer Lies 2018 320 pages Olga Bestseller Bestseller Ferch, MarianneHoppe Cast: MartinBenrath,HanneloreElsner,Heino Director: NicoHoffmann 1991: DerTodkamalsFreund Banderas Cast: LiamNeeson,LauraLinneyundAntonio Screenplay: RichardEyre Director: RichardEyre 2008: TheOtherMan New YorkTimes marvelous directnessandsimplicity.« –The complex. Mr.Schlinktellshisstory with »Arresting, philosophicallyelegant, morally Hamburg »A literaryevent.«–VolkerHage/DerSpiegel, past.« –DerTagesspiegel,Berlin relevance andanawarenessoftheGerman »Schlink writessparklingnovelswithpolitical Times ensnares bothheartandmind.«–LosAngeles morally devastatingnovel.›TheReader‹ »A formallybeautiful,disturbingandfinally The Reader Praise 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2002 2003 2014 1989 1993 1997 1997 1997 1999 Awards Movieadaptations(cont'd) Tageszeitung MainichiShinbun,der ›Sonderkulturpreis‹ derjapanischen Büchereien fürDerVorleser Deutschen VerbandesEvangelischer ›Evangelischer Buchpreis‹des Gesellschaft inDüsseldorf ›Ehrengabe‹ derHeinrich-Heine- Joenpelto-Preis‹ derGemeindeLohja Finnischer Literaturpreis›Eeva de laLégiond’Honneur‹ Ernennung zum›Chevalierdansl’Ordre sein Gesamtwerk ›Preis desGerman-BritishForum‹für Vorleser ›Bundesverdienstkreuz 1.Klasse‹fürDer sein schriftstellerischesSchaffen südkoreanischen KulturstiftungTojifür ›Pak Kyong-niPrize‹der gordische Schleife Kriminalliteratur ›DerGlauser‹fürDie Autorenpreis deutschsprachige Krimi ArchivsfürSelbsBetrug ›Deutscher Krimi-Preis‹desBochumer Lortholary) Autor sowiefürdenÜbersetzerBernard Der Vorleser(Auszeichnungfürden ›Prix LaureBataillon‹(Frankreich)für Neumünster fürDerVorleser ›Hans-Fallada-Preis‹ derStadt Der Vorleser ›Grinzane-Cavour-Preis‹ (Italien)für Schaffen Literaturpreis‹ fürseinliterarisches Erstmals verliehener›WELT- Vorleser Buchbestseller vergebenwird,fürDer jedes Jahraneinenjapanischen 2 / 3 Praise (cont'd)
»A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding.« – Ruth Rendell
»For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.« – Evening Standard, London
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The Weekend Guilt of the Past The Homecoming Verifications »Schlink knows the depths of the human soul 240 pages 192 pages 384 pages 368 pages all too well. The writer and judge proves with 2008 2007 2006 2005 each of his books that he knows how to Movie Adaptation Bestseller transform German history into literature.« – Bestseller ZeitPunkt, Leipzig
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