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Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany is 1944. A professor of law at Humboldt University, Berlin and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the major international bestselling novel and movie The Reader, short story collection Flights of Love and several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Berlin and New York.
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Summer Lies asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human....
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Summer Lies asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human....
A Special Edition of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary. One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way.
From bestselling author of The Reader and again exploring, with great skill, the effects of dramatic historical events on the lives of individuals. Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences
January 2011 Book of the Month. A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of the international megaseller THE READER. It's a beautifully and powerfully written novel with a cleverly constructed plot that leaves you turning the page in order to get to the real Francoise and under the skin of the mysterious Mr Bulkanoff. Readers of literary fiction and those wanting an element of mystery and suspense will devour The Gordian Knot.
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences.
One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it but now, with the film coming, it’s going to be back in the limelight. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way. Comparison: Markus Zusak, John Boyne, Rachel Seiffert.
Homecoming shares some of the themes from The Reader, Schlinks highly successful novel from 10 years ago, dealing with the “scars of history” in the wake of the Second World War. The main character goes on a journey to find out what happened to his German father in World War II with his travels reflecting some experiences of Homer’s Odysseus in The Odyssey. Not all the allusions may be clear for those not familiar with Homer, but it still makes for a moving and thought provoking story.
One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it but now, with the film coming, it’s going to be back in the limelight. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way. Comparison: Markus Zusak, John Boyne, Rachel Seiffert.
Homecoming shares some of the themes from The Reader, Schlinks highly successful novel from 10 years ago, dealing the “scars of history†in the wake of the Second World War. The main character goes on a journey to find out what happened to his German father in World War II with his travels reflecting some experiences of Homer’s Odysseus in The Odyssey. Not all the allusions may be clear for those not familiar with Homer, but it still makes for a moving and thought provoking story.
What a delight! A well written (as one would expect from the author of The Reader), well built detective story with an eccentric 68-year old widower the reluctant investigator of computer hacking at a giant chemical factory. Obviously he finds old secrets and a lot else in a suspenseful, highly satisfying read. Good one.Comparison: Christopher Fowler (crime), Colin Dexter, Peter Robinson.Similar this month: Ian Rankin, Andrew Taylor.
A 2013 World Book Night selection. One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it but now, with the film coming, it’s going to be back in the limelight. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way.
'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER. A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us in turn love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.
For fifteen-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 Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing another deep secret.
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 in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out. The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.
In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life.As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of The Woman on the Stairs became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, the woman whose portrait he had painted, and her husband became a triangle that drew the lawyer deeper and deeper into their tangled web. Now, encountering the painting that triggered it all, the lawyer must reconcile his past and present selves; when he eventually locates the woman, he is forced to confront the truth of his love and the reality that his life has been irrevocably changed.With The Woman on the Stairs, the internationally acclaimed author of The Reader delivers a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. Intricately crafted, poignant, and beguiling, this is Bernhard Schlink writing at his peak.
From the author of the internationally bestselling classic THE READER, a tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting. 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 in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out. The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.
"e;ZHenshchina na lestnice - novaya kniga Bernharda SHlinka, avtora znamenitogo "e;CHteca, - srazu posle vyhoda v svet vozglavila spisok bestsellerov zhurnala "e;SHpigel', a prava na ee perevod byli prodany po men'shej mere v desyatok stran. EHto roman o lyubvi s pochti detektivnoj intrigoj vokrug kartiny, ischeznuvshej na sorok let i neozhidanno poyavivshejsya vnov'. Udivitel'naya istoriya svyazana s zaputannymi otnosheniyami v lyubovnom chetyrekhugol'nike, kotoryj sostavlyayut izobrazhennaya na kartine zhenshchina i troe muzhchin - krupnyj predprinimatel' (zakazchik kartiny), vsemirno izvestnyj hudozhnik i preuspevayushchij molodoj advokat, kotoryj priglashen uladit' konflikt mezhdu zakazchikom i hudozhnikom, no sam stanovitsya dejstvuyushchim licom konflikta i odnovremenno rasskazchikom istorii. CHto kasaetsya kartiny, to nel'zya ne zametit' ee skhodstva s polotnom Gerharda Rihtera "e;EHma. Obnazhennaya na lestnice - znamenitym proizvedeniem edva li ne samogo dorogogo sredi nyne zhivushchih hudozhnikov, kotorogo nedarom prozvali Pikasso XXI veka.
Un tablou celebru, de care nimeni n-a mai auzit multa vreme, reapare în împrejurari misterioase. Este o surpriza pentru lumea artei, dar si o lovitura pentru barbatul care, pe când era un tânar avocat, a mediat un conflict între autorul si proprietarul tabloului. Aflat la mii de kilometri de casa si la decenii dupa momentul în care tabloul si femeia pe care o înfatiseaza îi schimbasera destinul, barbatul spera ca aparitia neasteptata a lucrarii e semnul ca nici cea care i-a fost model nu poate fi prea departe. Pleaca asadar în cautarea femeii de care în tinerete se îndragostise orbeste, iubind-o într-un fel niciodata lamurit, si care îl împinsese la gesturi inexplicabile. Drumul memoriei îl poarta din Frankfurt pâna în Sydney, apoi într-un orasel îndepartat de pe coasta australiana.
"e;CHtec pereveden na tridcat' devyat' yazykov mira, kniga stala mezhdunarodnym bestsellerom i sobrala celyj buket prestizhnyh literaturnyh premij v Evrope i Amerike, a sovremennaya nemeckaya literatura, predstavlennaya blistatel'nymi imenami Genriha Byollya, Germana Gesse, Gyuntera Grassa, popolnilas' eshche odnim gromkim imenem - Bernhard SHlink. Vnezapno vspyhnuvshij roman mezhdu pyatnadcatiletnim podrostkom, mal'chikom iz professorskoj sem'i, i zreloj zhenshchinoj tak zhe vnezapno oborvalsya, kogda ona bez preduprezhdeniya ischezla iz goroda. CHerez vosem' let on, teper' uzhe student vypusknogo kursa yuridicheskogo fakul'teta, snova uvidel ee - sredi byvshih nadziratel'nic zhenskogo konclagerya na processe protiv nacistskih prestupnikov. No ehto ne edinstvennaya tajna, kotoraya otkrylas' geroyu romana Bernharda SHlinka "e;CHtec.
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Summer Lies asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human....
Guilt about the Past explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not only to individual perpetrators. It considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, and the role of law in this process. Based on the Weidenfeld Lectures author Bernhard Schlink delivered at Oxford University, Guilt about the Past is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation? future. Written in Schlink? eloquent but accessible style, these essays tap in to the worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
A Special Edition of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary. One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way.
A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller THE READER Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. The previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to be going perfectly: Georg falls in love with Bulnakov's attractive secretary, Francoise, and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans. She tells Georg that Bulnakov has threatened to harm her brother, who lives in Poland, if she refuses to do his bidding. When Georg confronts Bulnakov Francoise disappears, and mysterious elements within the village try to hound him out. All he has left of Francoise is a picture she gave him of a church, which she told him was in Warsaw. But when a friend tells him the church is actually in New York, Georg flies to America in a desperate bid to track down Francoise, and unravel the web of deceit. Tailed from his arrival, Georg quickly realises that he is stuck between the CIA and the KGB, and further out of his depth than he can begin to comprehend. But which side was he working for? Who is the mysterious Mr Bulkanoff? And did he ever know the real Francoise?
From bestselling author of The Reader and again exploring, with great skill, the effects of dramatic historical events on the lives of individuals. Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences
The author of THE READER returns with another thrilling case for sleuth Gerhard Self. PI Gerhard Self is lured out of retirement by a seemingly straightforward assignment: to find the former sleeping partner at Welker & Welker, a prestigious private bank. But the case soon throws up many more questions than answers, and Self finds himself embroiled in a shady world of money-laundering, mafia and murder... What secrets is the bank's history hiding? Why are the institution's enigmatic masters - Herr Welker and his steely Russian foster brother - trying to ensnare Self in their dangerous game, and just who is the stranger claiming to be Self's long-lost son?
Homecoming shares some of the themes from The Reader, Schlinks highly successful novel from 10 years ago, dealing with the “scars of history” in the wake of the Second World War. The main character goes on a journey to find out what happened to his German father in World War II with his travels reflecting some experiences of Homer’s Odysseus in The Odyssey. Not all the allusions may be clear for those not familiar with Homer, but it still makes for a moving and thought provoking story.
One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it but now, with the film coming, it’s going to be back in the limelight. That sensation of admiration is still with me. Clever, beautifully written, short, stark and hard-hitting, it is a tale of sex, guilt and shame with the holocaust raising its ugly head in an original and alarming way. Comparison: Markus Zusak, John Boyne, Rachel Seiffert.
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