The Reader

Name: The Reader
Author: Bernhard Schlink

by Bernhard Schlink

Former Nazi collaborator and student form transformative relationship through literature

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Bernhard Schlink

German author and legal scholar best known for The Reader, a novel about a post-war German's complicated relationship with an older woman who was a Nazi concentration camp guard. The novel was a worldwide bestseller.

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