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World Book Club: Bernhard Schlink - The Reader

Bernhard Schlink - The Reader

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Harriett Gilbert talks to Bernhard Schlink about his novel The Reader.

Harriett Gilbert talks to Bernhard Schlink about his novel The Reader, which explores German guilt about the Holocaust.

Harriett Gilbert talks to the acclaimed German writer Bernhard Schlink about his explosively controversial novel, The Reader, at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.

Made into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film with Kate Winslet The Reader tells of law student Michael Berg who, nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

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