The Storyteller

After a tragic incident left Sage with a deep scar—not only in her soul but also on her face—she began to avoid people. At night she bakes bread, and during the day she sleeps. One day she meets Joseph Weber, an elderly schoolteacher, and grows close to him despite the age difference. Sage feels that life has finally given her a chance to heal. But everything changes the day Joseph confides in her about his past. It turns out this kind, attentive, and shy man had been an SS officer in Auschwitz—where Sage’s grandmother was imprisoned. Her grandmother once told her granddaughter about the horrors she experienced in the camp.

Now Joseph, who has suffered for many years from guilt over the atrocities he committed, wants to die and asks Sage to forgive him on behalf of all the Jews killed in the camp and to help him leave this life. But does the past have the right to kill?

A gripping story about the boundary between justice and mercy by the world-famous author Jodi Picoult.