The Reader

Synopsis

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 timeswhen he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old michael berg is rescued by hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears.