Michael Berg, the novels primary character and protagonist, is also the narrator and in the. The Reader is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. What I will say is for a 4 hour book it certainly packs a punch. The novel is written in the first-person limited point of view. The narrator was fine, nothing special, but not a hindrance either.
I am not sure if I would recommend this book to everyone. A very dramatic book, which more than once, sent chills through me. Hannah herself could not admit and own up to what she had done. starting point of this debate, and Bernhard Schlinks novel The Reader - a novel exploring the tension between judging and understanding, among other things. The woman in question is Hanna.
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This dysfunctional "kid" (as he is referred to in the book), who even as an adult could not come to terms with his relationship with Hannah, was full of unresolved feelings and emotion too. For fifteen-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined.
I never took the time to understand what the second generation German people went through, a completely different perspective. Being a second generation holocaust survivor from both of my parents, I was raised with the holocaust in my veins, always learning and feeling the emotion of what my parents, their families and friends went through, one horror story after the other. I couldn't decide if I liked it or not, however, it continues to pop into my thoughts and haunt me, and that is a sure sign that the book affected me. When I was finished this book I felt empty. These novels are considered in the light of connections between postwar Germany and the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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