Bøker av Bernhard Schlink

An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller.

Boka starter som en hemmelig kjærlighetshistorie mellom Michael og Hanna, en skoleelev og en mye eldre sporveisbetjent, og ender som et oppgjør med naziforbrytelsene i Auschwitz. Som jusstudent følger Michael en rettssak mot en gruppe kvinnelige voktere fra tyske konsentrasjonleire. Her oppdager han Hanna på tiltalebenken, og blir stilt overfor vanskelige valg.

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice SzafranMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her. From the author of the no.1 international bestseller The Reader, The Granddaughter is a gripping novel that transports us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to contemporary Australia, asking what might be found when it seems like all is lost.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

?Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink's] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.??Booklist?A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.??Evening StandardA sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it enduresUnfolding across decades?from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century?and across continents?from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west?Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman's devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines?revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable. Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink's magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

En besettende roman fra forfatteren av den kritikerroste «Høytleseren» Olga og Herbert finner hverandre for første gang i Pommern på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet. De kommer fra vidt forskjellige kår, men det er ikke klasseskillet som holder dem fra hverandre. For mens Olga kjemper for å komme seg opp og fram i verden, er Herbert en rastløs eventyrer. Ambisjonene tar ham fra Tyskland til Afrika og Russland. I mellomtiden venter Olga hjemme med håp om at Herbert skal ta til fornuften og velge henne. Men under en ekspedisjon til Arktis opphører alle livstegn fra Herbert. Mange tiår senere, i et lite antikvariat i Tromsø, finner en eldre mann en bunke brev postlagt for et halvt århundre siden. Brevene er fra Olga og er adressert til Herbert. Ingen av dem er åpnet. Bernhard Schlinks Olga er en besettende roman om kjærlighet og savn. Den er også en fortelling om de ideologiske endringene Tyskland gikk gjennom i forrige århundre, og om menneskets forsøk på å godta fortiden. Med denne romanen treffer Schlink en emosjonell nerve, slik han gjorde med sin kritikerroste roman Høytleseren (The Reader, 1995).

A tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting from the internationally bestselling author of THE READER.

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