Another Man and Other Novels and Stories

A collection of mature prose by Bernhard Schlink, a contemporary classic of German literature, author of the novel «Granddaughter» and the bestseller «The Reader», which has received numerous prestigious literary awards, translated into dozens of languages and adapted in 2008 by Stephen Daldry with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in the leading roles.

Enthralled by Homer's «Odyssey» and a novel by an unnamed author about the escape of a German soldier from Siberian captivity, young Peter Debauer does not immediately realize that fate is offering him a thread that will help unravel the tangled web of truths and fictions associated with the fate of his father, who is either missing in action or killed in the war. Having spent over twenty years behind bars, former ultra-leftist terrorist and urban partisan Jörg is released and faces his former comrades and inevitable questions: what is the meaning of the future if the past life was a mistake, and what is the meaning of the future if the only possible life remains in the past? Very different people try to comprehend what love is, why we flee from it, why we yearn for it, why we do not cherish it — and sometimes some of them catch a glimpse of the truth. Schlink writes books where the most important events are the questions before answers emerge, and a person constantly balances on the edge, in precarious equilibrium, in the gray area between good and evil, unable to look away from the strict mechanics and wild nature of History.

This volume includes Schlink's novels «The Return» (2006) and «Three Days» (2008), as well as the short story collection «Deserters of Love» (2000).