The reader

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 re...

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Main Author: Schlink, Bernhard.
Other Authors: Janeway, Carol Brown. (Translator), Scott, Campbell. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
German
Published: New York : Random House Audio, p1999.
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Summary: 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.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 4 sound discs (4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9780739375952
0739375954
Author Notes: Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. He is a professor of law at the University of Berlin and a judge. He is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning detective novels that are now being translated into English. He lives in Bonn and Berlin, Germany.

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