Colors of Partings

«Colors of Partings» — the last collection of stories by the author of the novels «The Reader», «The Woman on the Stairs», and «Olga». Nine elegant stories about love and friendship, family and loneliness, aging and happiness. The heroes of these stories are very different, and each is forced to endure their own parting: one parts with innocence, another — with hope, the third — with illusions and fears. However, the main theme of all the stories, and of Schlink's entire oeuvre, starting from the acclaimed «The Reader», — is the impossibility of parting with one's own past.