The Reader
For 15-year-old Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long they embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later as a law student observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly and terribly it does – Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret. ‘A tender horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction. A thriller a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience’ INDEPENDENT SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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