The Reader Audio Book

The Reader Audio BookThe Reader Audio Book

The Reader
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Reader: Campbell Scott

In postwar Germany, a 15-year-old boy has an affair with an older woman, who suddenly disappears. When next they meet, she is on trial for Nazi war crimes. An Oprah Book Club pick. The movie stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. "Scott, whose perfect pacing and gentle voice animate the simple, engrossing prose, performs this recording beautifully... His eloquence with the spoken word complements Schlink's gentle touch with the written one."—AudioFile   ยป Read More


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Publish Date: 11/25/2008
ISBN: 9780739375952

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Synopsis:

At the age of fifteen, Michael Berg falls in love with a woman who disappears, and while observing a trial as a law student years later, he is shocked to discover the same woman as the defendant in a horrible crime. Simultaneous. (An MGM/Weinstein Company/Mirage film, written by David Hare, directed by Stephen Daldry, releasing December 2008, starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, & David Kross) (General Fiction)

Book Awards:

Winner of the 1998 Boston Book Review Award in Fisk Fiction Prize
Nominated for the 1999 International Impac Dublin Literary Award in Novel

Book Reviews:

"Part of the artistry of this novel lies in its limpid, understated realism, the tangible details....The integrity of THE READER lies with the narrator's refusal to assign blame according to initial, obvious interpretation; indeed, as the novel develops, its theme becomes the always-shifting landscape of guilt and shame."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Kai Maristed (08/31/1997)
 

Related Subjects to Browse


Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Class Conflict
Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Innocence & Experience
Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Youth & Age
Fiction Themes » Education » Law School
Fiction Themes » Holocaust » Nazis
Fiction Themes » Human Qualities & Behavior » Madness
Fiction Themes » Human Qualities & Behavior » Passion
Fiction Themes » Human Qualities & Behavior » Secret Past
Fiction Themes » Legal, Courtroom & Crime » Trials, Lawsuits
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Psychological Realism
Fiction Themes » Love, Relationships & Sex » First Love
Fiction Themes » Love, Relationships & Sex » Love Stories
Fiction Themes » Love, Relationships & Sex » Obsession, Sexual
Fiction Themes » Peoples & Cultures » Germans
Fiction Themes » Philosophy » History & Its Burdens
Fiction Themes » War & Military » War Crimes
Fiction Themes » War & Military » World War Ii
History » Military / General » War Crime Trials
Law » International » War Crime Trials
Law » Military » War Crime Trials


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