The Reader

A suddenly ignited novel between a fifteen-year-old teenager—a boy from a professor’s family—and a mature woman also suddenly ended when she disappeared from the city without warning. Eight years later, now a law faculty student graduating, he saw her again—among the former supervisors of a women’s concentration camp at the trial of Nazi criminals. But this is not the only secret that the protagonist of Bernhard Schlink’s novel “The Reader” discovers.