1995The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Schlink never names the city, but its river, old bridge and hillside castle are unmistakably his own Heidelberg, on the Neckar in the Rhine-Neckar region. A fifteen-year-old and an older woman meet here; a generation later the story reaches out to a war-crimes court near Frankfurt and a former camp in the Alsace hills.
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