The Reader

📙 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. When 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. When Michael Next Sees her, he is a Young Law Student, and she is on Trial for a Hideous Crime. As he Watches her Refuse to Defend her Innocence, Michael Gradually Realizes that Hanna May be Guarding a Secret she Considers More Shameful than Murder.