Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
Harriett Gilbert talks to Bernhard Schlink about his novel The Reader.
World Book Club · BBC World Service
January 1, 201152m 59s
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Show Notes
Harriett Gilbert talks to the acclaimed German writer Bernhard Schlink about his explosively controversial novel, The Reader, at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Made into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film with Kate Winslet The Reader tells of law student Michael Berg who, nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.