The release date for the English version of 'The Reader' by
Bernhard Schlink is Jun 1997. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Admired for its twisted sensuality and ethical assertions it offers to the reader, this captivating book is a tale of love and secrets, terror and kindness, set against the eerie backdrop of postwar Germany.
A lady twice his age named Hanna comes to the aid of fifteen-year-old Michael Berg when he becomes sick while traveling home from school. She eventually wins his heart, but then she vanishes for no apparent reason. Michael is a young law student and she is on trial for a horrible crime when he next meets her. Michael eventually comes to the conclusion that Hanna could be hiding something from him that she finds more embarrassing than murder as he observes her decline to assert her innocence.