Bernhard Schlink, the acclaimed German writer known for «The Reader» and «The Go-Between» ("The Granddaughter"), creates works in which questions still without answers come to the forefront, and a person standing on the thin line between good and evil—forced to observe History’s strict logic and chaotic nature—must endure.
Diving into Homer’s «Odyssey» and an anonymous novel about a German soldier escaping Siberian captivity, young Peter Debauer in «The Return» gradually comes to understand that fate has given him a key that will help unravel the stories connected to his father—whose fate remains a mystery: was he missing or killed in the war?