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The reader / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

Schlink, Bernhard. (Author). Janeway, Carol Brown. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375707972
  • ISBN: 9780375707971
  • ISBN: 9780307473462
  • ISBN: 0307473465
  • Physical Description: 218 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, ©1997.

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General Note:
"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"--Title page verso.
Subject: 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.
Romance fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Germany > Fiction.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Homer Public Library F SCHLINK (Text) 000136712 Fiction Checked out 05/01/2024


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