Bernhard Schlink, Author, trans. from the German by John E. Woods. Pantheon $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-42090-0 Schlink's The Reader was a surprise bestseller on these shores, discovered by Oprah and ...

On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis will present a reading by best-selling German author Bernhard Schlink. He will read from his novel, “Der Vorleser” ("The ...

Bernhard Schlink: No, I didn't always know. It's actually something that I experienced as a young child. My grandparents edited pulp fiction like that, and at one point I started reading and the last ...

After the defeat of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Germans set themselves the near-impossible task of coming to terms with their legacy. They even invented a word for it: ...

Assistant Professor of German Jens Elias Klenner praised Schlink’s introspective novel’s ability to “ask us to read again, more than once slowly,” and “to serve as a looking glass into a troubled ...

Over a decade ago, a law professor, judge and author of detective fiction called Bernhard Schlink turned his attention to the subject of postwar guilt. The resulting literary thriller, The Reader, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Twenty years ago, the German lawyer-turned-novelist Bernhard Schlink won worldwide fame with The ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... German writer Bernhard Schlink, born in 1944 shortly before the Nazi defeat, has spent much of his adult life trying to come to terms with the horrifying ...

In the summer, it isn’t easy being German. For a few weeks each year, the famously efficient German work routine grinds to a halt. Relaxation is the order of the day. People bound by blood and ...