The reader
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The reader
AUTHOR:
Schlink, Bernhard
Janeway, Carol Brown
ISBN:
9780375708855
UNIFORM_TITLE:
Vorleser. English
EDITION:
1st Vintage open market ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Vintage, 1999
PHYSICAL_DESC:
218 p. ; 18 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Translation of: Vorleser
ABSTRACT:
A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder
SUBJECT:
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction |
| War crime trials -- Fiction |
| Germany -- Fiction |
| Love stories |
| Psychological fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder