Bernhard Schlink

Germany · Holocaust aftermath — fiction

About

German novelist, law professor and former judge. The Reader, about a post-war generation confronting its parents' guilt, became an international bestseller.

Books in Database (1)

The Reader 1995 · 218 pages

A German teenager's affair with an older woman returns to haunt him when she stands trial for war crimes.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust