The Reader Bernhard Schlink
The new book a novel about the holocaust and the German view of past and present. Interesting in view of our trip to see Goodbye Lenin about another fault line in German history. It will be interesting to see how it compares to Weisel's novels - from the other side of the barbed wire and Primo Levi's books.
I recently read Haffner's Defying Hitler a view of opposing the rise of Nazism inside Germany, also the review here.
But back to the Schlink!
- Comments here,
- a book group guide and questions though it looks as if you won't want to read this until the book is finished as bits of the plot are revealed.
- A bibliography - probably heavy! Attn Carol
- The loneliness of being German
- Schlink on Heimat