Three Days

Bernhard Schlink, a recognized master of German prose, is known for his books “The Reader” and “The Granddaughter,” in which he explores the importance of questions that come before answers. His characters are constantly struggling at the edge, in a precarious balance between good and evil, unable to detach themselves from the harsh mechanics and the turbulent flow of History. In the novel “Three Days,” former ultra-left terrorist Jörg, after more than twenty years in prison, finds freedom and meets his former comrades to ask the inevitable questions: what future awaits after the mistakes of the past, and is there any point in the future if, in the past, there was the only possible life?