Bernhard Schlink, Author , trans. from the German by John E. Woods. Pantheon $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-42090-0
Schlink's The Reader
was a surprise bestseller on these shores, discovered by Oprah and established by word of mouth. The writer's mastery of form, concise yet thorough probing of character, and concern with the moral implications of human...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author , trans. from the German by Peter Constantine. Vintage $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-70908-1
In German author Schlink's meandering second crime novel available in English to feature aging PI Gerhard Self (after Self's
Punishment
), a man named Salger hires Self to locate his missing daughter, Leonore. With little help from the...
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Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4
Most of the seven short stories in Schlink’s eloquent and profound second collection are thematically bound by the protagonists’ titular distortions. “The day she stopped loving her children was no different from other days,” opens “The Journey to...
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Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Joyce Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. Pantheon, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-101-87071-6
At the start of this exquisite novel from Schlink (The Reader), the narrator, an unnamed German lawyer, stumbles on a painting he recognizes, Woman on Staircase, in a Sydney, Australia, art gallery. The narrator recounts how he fell in love with the
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Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Shaun Whiteside, Pantheon, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-37815-6
Old friends cautiously reunite at an isolated German estate after one of them is released from prison in Schlink's (The Reader) meditative novel on the past's grip on the present and the possibility—or impossibility—of redemption. Convicted of...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Henry Heim. Pantheon $24 (260p) ISBN 978-0-375-42091-7
Schlink’s first novel, The Reader
(1997), became a U.S. bestseller after it was an Oprah pick. That book, and his next, a short story collection, raised moral questions about Germany right after WWII; his latest, following two crime novels,...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Campbell Scott, Read by , read by Campbell Scott. Random House Audio $14.99 (
, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7393-7595-2
, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7393-7595-2
When Michael Berg began attending the Nazi war trials as part of a college class, he never expected to find Hanna—an older woman who had seduced him when he was a teenager—as one of the accused. Berg is himself paralyzed by a moral...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Paul Michael, Read by , read by Paul Michael. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5924-2
Peter Dabauer's determined search for an author and the ending of a book marks the starting point for his own literary journey, but his answers yield only more questions in Schlink's new novel. Dabauer's life symbolically resembles...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Carol Brown Janeway, Translator Vintage Books USA $21 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-44279-0
Another in the spate of soul-searching post-Holocaust German novels that have made their way here, this elegant if derivative triptych chronicles the relationship of narrator Michael Berg, a young bourgeois man who becomes a legal historian, with...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Peter Constantine, Translator , trans. from the German by Peter Constantine. Vintage/Black Lizard $15 (262p) ISBN 978-0-375-70909-8
The successful film adaptation of Schlink's The Reader
should give a boost to his third mystery to feature aging German PI Gerhard Self (after 2007's Self's Deception
). On his way home to Mannheim during a snow storm, Schlink helps...
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Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Peter Constantine, Vintage, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-72556-2
In Schlink's unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who's struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The...
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Bernhard Schlink, Author, Joan Parra Contreras, Translator Vintage Espanol $13.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-307-47310-3
After falling ill on the street in the German town where he lives, 15-year-old Michael is helped by a woman named Hanna. When he returns to her apartment to thank her several months later, he begins a passionate love affair with her. In time, she...
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Bernhard Schlink. trans. from the German by Charlotte Collins. HarperVia, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-311292-6
Schlink (The Reader) returns with a nuanced portrait of an ordinary German woman who comes of age at the turn of the 20th century. Orphaned as a young girl, Olga Rinke is taken in reluctantly by her chilly paternal grandmother in Prussia. She...
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Bernhard Schlink. HarperVia, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-329523-0
Schlink (The Reader) delivers a touching narrative about an elderly man’s discovery of his wife’s secrets. After Kaspar Wettner’s wife, Birgit, accidentally drowns in a bathtub, he finds a diary in which she reveals that before they married in the...
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