# The Reader

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- Book: [The Reader](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernhard-schlink/the-reader) ([The Reader.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernhard-schlink/the-reader.md))
- Authors: [Bernhard Schlink](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernhard-schlink), [Sam Peter Jackson](https://www.bookquiver.com/sam-peter-jackson)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-07-5382-329-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday] For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.