Bernhard Schlink
1) The reader
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
"A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old
2) The weekend
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Pub. Date
c2010
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215 p. ; 20 cm.
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Reuniting in a secluded country home after decades apart, a group of old friends and lovers exchange clandestine judgments on their divergent paths and celebrate the pardon of one of their number, a convicted murderer and terrorist.
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2021.
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277 pages ; 22 cm
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"Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the modern age can provide, her life is irremediably changed....
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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227 pages ; 22 cm
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"A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover... A brilliant and naïve young lawyer's life is changed forever when a painter and his subject--a breathtakingly beautiful woman--appear at his office in Frankfurt. The woman's husband is deliberately marring the painting of his wife he commissioned the artist to make. Now the woman and the artist want the painting back. Simple enough--or so it seems before the lawyer becomes enmeshed...
5) Homecoming
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Pub. Date
c2008
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260 p. ; 22 cm.
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A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years.
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Spätestens mit seinem Roman "Der Vorleser" erlangte er schriftstellerischen Weltruhm. In seinem neuen Roman "Olga" spannt Bernhard Schlink ein erzählerisches Panorama vom ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert bis zum beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert, von Deutschland bis in die Arktis, und erzählt dabei die Geschichte einer Liebe zwischen einem Mann, der dem Traum von Macht und Größe zu erliegen droht, und einer Frau, die gegen die Vorurteile ihrer Zeit kämpft....
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Spätestens mit seinem Roman "Der Vorleser" erlangte er schriftstellerischen Weltruhm. In seinem neuen Roman Olga spannt Bernhard Schlink ein erzählerisches Panorama vom ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert bis zum beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert, von Deutschland bis in die Arktis, und erzählt dabei die Geschichte einer Liebe zwischen einem Mann, der dem Traum von Macht und Größe zu erliegen droht, und einer Frau, die gegen die Vorurteile ihrer Zeit kämpft....
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Dass Gerechtigkeit gut und erstrebenswert sei, darüber gibt es kaum Zweifel. Schuld soll gerecht bestraft, Menschen sollen gerecht behandelt werden, die Welt gerecht eingerichtet sein. Doch die Forderung nach Gerechtigkeit lässt die mangelhafte und schreiend ungerechte Wirklichkeit nur umso klarer hervortreten. Wenn es aber stimmt, dass manche Menschen Privilegien haben, die andere nie haben werden: Wäre es dann nicht weitaus ehrlicher, den Traum...
9) The reader
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
10) The other man
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.