Prof Bernhard Schlink

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them. It is only many years later, after her...

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in...

For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned, but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage...

What can death teach us about life? ‘One of the greatest achievements of the author of The Reader’ Les Echos ‘Schlink's novel belongs alongside Julian Barnes's. It sounds like a farewell’ Le Figaro littéraire ‘Masterful’ Suddeutsche Zeitung At seventy-six, Martin Brehm is, by his own measure, content. He tends his garden, writes, and cares for his six-year-old son, David, while...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them — it is only many years later, after...

Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now Le Monde The great novel of German reunification Le Figaro A masterpiece Maurice Szafran A rewarding and wonderfully readable novel ... Schlink remains a perceptive chronicler of modern Germany Guardian May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the...