The Reader

A suddenly ignited romance between a fifteen-year-old boy from a professor's family and an older woman abruptly came to an end when she vanished from the city without warning. Eight years later, he, now a final-year law student, saw her... again—among the former guards of a women's concentration camp at the trial against Nazi criminals. But this is not the only secret that was revealed to the hero of Bernhard Schlink's novel "The Reader".
"The Reader" has been translated into thirty-nine languages around the world, the book became an international bestseller and won a whole bouquet of prestigious literary awards in Europe and America, and modern German literature, represented by the brilliant names of Heinrich Böll, Hermann Hesse, and Günter Grass, has gained one more loud name—Bernhard Schlink.