The reader / by Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c1997Description: 218 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0375707972 (pbk.)Subject(s): Guilt -- Fiction | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction | Germans -- Psychology -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction | German language materials -- Translations into English | War crime trials -- Fiction | Love stories | Psychological fiction | Germany -- FictionDDC classification: 833 Summary: The former lover of a German attorney refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The attorney gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Literature(hall 2) | 833 SCH-R 1997 6907 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0006907 |
"Originally published in Switzerland as Der Vorleser by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, in 1995. First published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1997."--T.p. verso.
The former lover of a German attorney refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The attorney gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
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