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Bernhard Schlink

Author of The Reader

66+ Works 17,384 Members 508 Reviews 15 Favorited

About the Author

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 show more and Berlin, Germany. (Publisher Fact Sheets) Bernhard Schlink is a German Author, Professor, and Judge, born in 1944 in Bielefeld, Germany. He attended the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a law professor at Humbolt University of Berlin. He is the author of Flights of Love, a collection of short fiction. His international bestseller, The Reader, won the Hans Fallada Prize, the Prix Laure Bataillon, and the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt. His recent work, The Woman on the Stairs, is an international bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Bernhard Schlink

The Reader (1995) 13,349 copies
Flights of Love (2000) 799 copies
Homecoming (2005) 704 copies
The Weekend: A Novel (2008) 443 copies
Self's Punishment (1987) 410 copies
Self's Deception (1992) 265 copies
The Woman on the Stairs (2014) 247 copies
Summer Lies: Stories (2010) 213 copies
The Gordian Knot (1988) 194 copies
Self's Murder (2001) 173 copies
Olga (2018) 173 copies
Guilt About the Past (1987) 106 copies
Abschiedsfarben (2020) 51 copies
Die Enkelin (2021) 43 copies
La petite-fille (2021) 19 copies
Heimat als Utopie (2000) 13 copies
La nieta (Spanish Edition) (2023) 12 copies
De kleindochter (2022) 11 copies
Das späte Leben (2023) 10 copies
Herlinde Koelbl. Haare (2007) 6 copies
20. Juli: Ein Zeitstück (2021) 5 copies
La nipote (2022) 3 copies
La giustizia di Selb (2022) 2 copies
Il lettore (2018) 2 copies
Zuckererbsen 1 copy
LEXIMTARI 1 copy
Unuka (2023) 1 copy
Barvy loučení (2021) 1 copy
1997 1 copy
Der Seitensprung (2007) 1 copy
Návrat (2007) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Reader [2008 film] (2008) — Original book — 177 copies
Früher war mehr Strand: Hinterhältige Reisegeschichten (2007) — Author, some editions — 10 copies
Hebbes 1 — Contributor — 2 copies

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BooksInMirror | 22 other reviews | Feb 19, 2024 |
Very interesting. The protagonist is either deeply emblematic of the problem with humanity, or it’s confusing. Why was he so dead inside? Was his affair more traumatic than her life? Strange. The tone and pacing of the book lent itself to a kind of banality that worked. The character, Hannah, was quite complex—ignorant but kind, handicapped by her illiteracy into choices without real choice. What is the guilt of the executioner? That’s the question and the lingering guilt in the subsequent generations.… (more)
 
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BookyMaven | 391 other reviews | Dec 6, 2023 |
A teen boy stumbles into an affair with an older woman, who acts secretive throughout the relationship before simply vanishing one day. A couple of years later their paths cross again when he, as part of a school course, attends the trial of a group of Nazi soldiers and finds that she is one of the defendants. He struggles between being horrified and feeling sympathy for her.

This one didn’t really work for me, and I wonder if it at least partly is a cultural thing. Then again, I generally just don’t care for novels that are mostly character studies with little plot, and rarely enjoy stories with zero likeable characters. So.… (more)
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electrascaife | 391 other reviews | Dec 4, 2023 |
Behandelt Themen der Schuld in der Liebe sowie in der NS-Vergangenheit.
 
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