The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink · 1995 · 206 pages
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The Reader is both a literary surprise and a moral challenge: a riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's passionate, clandestine love affair with an older woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her past are revealed. Years later as a law student in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna, who is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, but is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.
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