{"product_id":"9781399603232","title":"The Reader - Prof Bernhard Schlink","description":"The 30th anniversary edition of the classic international bestseller, with a new afterword from Bernhard Schlink'A masterly work. Read this and read it again' - Observer'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of German conscience' - Independent'Examines the nature of understanding and tests the limits of forgiveness' - TimesFor 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 realise 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. The Reader is an international bestseller and a true modern classic, the essential Holocaust novel, examining the gap between Germany's pre- and post-war generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. 'For generations to come people will be marvelling over The Reader' - Evening Standard","brand":"Prof Bernhard Schlink","offers":[{"title":"240 pages \/ 13\/11\/2025 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57648194814327,"sku":"9781399603232","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781399603232.jpg?v=1793183423","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781399603232","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}