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Detective Novel 3by Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0297848666 (0-297-84866-6)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Detective Novel 4by Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0297844679 (0-297-84467-9)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Detective Novel 4'Book summary:Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. The previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to be going perfectly: Georg falls in love with Bulnakov's attractive secretary, Francoise, and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans. She tells Georg that Bulnakov has threatened to harm her brother, who lives in Poland, if she refuses to do his bidding. When Georg confronts Bulnakov Francoise disappears, and mysterious elements within the village try to hound him out. All he has left of Francoise is a picture she gave him of a church, which she told him was in Warsaw. But when a friend tells him the church is actually in New York, Georg flies to America in a desperate bid to track down Francoise, and unravel the web of deceit. Tailed from his arrival, Georg quickly realises that he is stuck between the CIA and the KGB, and further out of his depth than he can begin to comprehend. But which side was he working for? Who is the mysterious Mr Bulkanoff? And did he ever know the real Francoise? [via]
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Flights of Loveby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0297829033 (0-297-82903-3)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flights of Love'Book summary:Flights of Love sees Bernhard Schlink build on the success of his international bestselling debut novel, The Reader, with a clutch of short stories that tell of the variety of love, distilled into seven splinters of narrative. The pick of the seven, the opening "Girl with Lizard," depicts a remote male character who fixates on a painting of his father's, which he is to discover, like his father, has a familiarly unsavory past, and which he is impelled to exorcise. In the book's centerpiece, "Sugar Peas," architect and amateur painter Thomas finds that his trio of lovers avenge themselves on his profligacy after he is left wheelchair-bound by an accident. "The Other Man" presents a widower corresponding with his dead wife's unwitting lover, and finding comfort through acquaintance. Less successfully, "The Circumcision" sees the pretext of a German man and his New York Jewish girlfriend to ponder huge, chewy rhetoric on the problems of reconciling the past, almost absentmindedly concocting an improbable denouement. Schlink too often presents scenarios rather than scenes, more intent on dislocated dilemma than language. In keeping with his legal training, he discerns lines of attack more suited to a drama, or perhaps a courtroom drama, than fiction. There can be no doubting Schlink's storytelling acumen or his undertaking to tackle the complicated identity of modern Germany. What is increasingly exposed, though, are the supporting mechanisms that too frequently serve to reinforce, rather than challenge, our assumptions with their didactic contrivance. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Flights of Loveby John E. Woods, Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0375725555 (0-375-72555-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Homecomingby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0297844725 (0-297-84472-5)
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The Readerby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0307454894 (0-307-45489-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reader'Book summary:Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. --R. Ellis [via]
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- The Reader: ISBN 0375707972 (0-375-70797-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Reader: ISBN 0679781307 (0-679-78130-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Reader: ISBN 0375408266 (0-375-40826-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Reader: ISBN 0613174674 (0-613-17467-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Reader: ISBN 0679442790 (0-679-44279-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Reader: ISBN 0307454894 (0-307-45489-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
- The Reader: ISBN 0375707972 (0-375-70797-2)
Self's Deceptionby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0297851659 (0-297-85165-9)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Self's Deception'Book summary:Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.
Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detectives desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead. [via]
Self's Punishmentby Bernhard Schlink , Walter PoppISBN 0297849093 (0-297-84909-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Self's Punishmentby Walter Popp, Bernhard Schlink , Rebecca MorrisonISBN 037570907X (0-375-70907-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisisby Arthur J. Jacobson, Bernhard Schlink , Belinda CooperISBN 0520236815 (0-520-23681-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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