![]() The feeling of guilt is from Michael knowing someone who committed crimes like that. But she still plays a role in his life, and he wants her to play a role. Certainly he loves Hanna and feels some solidarity toward her, and he never fully stops loving her, though later he reduces communication drastically. Was it your intention, in his actions as a grown man, for him to exorcise some of that guilt?Ī: The guilt that Michael Berg feels is the guilt of keeping the secrets of those who committed the crimes of the Holocaust. In the case of Michael, it certainly felt that as a young adult he was attempting to shoulder the guilt for both his actions and Hanna's. Q: The guilt felt by all the characters, for their own varying reasons, is incredibly palatable. The Reader was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in 1999. Like Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, Yue Tao’s novel is fast-moving, well written, and easy to read-with an unthinkable ending.Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, the book from which the movie was based, shares with his thoughts on Kate Winslet's Oscar®-winning performance and provides some insight to his stunning novel. Chinese Edition by Bernhard Schlink (Author) See all formats and editions Hardcover 12.60 6 New from 12.60 Paperback from 78.99 1 Used from 78. Lulu Wang, author of The Lily Theater and other novels With her Europeanized sense of humor, Yue Tao describes the China that flows through her veins with amazing effect. Peter Potman, past Consul-General for the Netherlands in Shanghai Yue Tao weaves a fascinating tapestry whose threads are modern metropolitan China and the dark unconquered past of the Cultural Revolution everyone wants to forget while it keeps creeping back. Girl Reading, a painting by Jean-Honor Fragonard A TV program by China. Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese Studies, Cardiff University, UK author of numerous books on Chinese history The Reader (Der Vorleser) is a novel by Bernhard Schlink from 1995. A page-turner with deeply-informed commentary on issues and events in Chinese history. Lively, intimate portrait of life in a Chinese metropolis that upsets Western stereotypes and questions Chinese assumptions. ![]() Spectacularly successful debut novel, a page-turner, clear and forceful, intricate and gripping, sensitive and utterly convincing, dry, delicious humor. He teaches at Humboldt University in Berlin and the Benjamin N. Since the success of The Reader, Schlink has published a number of literary works, as well as legal texts. In 2008, it was adapted into an award-winning and critically acclaimed film. Xinran, author of The Good Women of China and China Witness among other books, columnist for The Guardian, and adviser to the BBC and Sky on China and the West The Reader was awarded numerous literary prizes and became a global bestseller. The Reader Summary Next Part 1, Chapter 1 The narrator, Michael Berg, tells the story of his teenage affair with a former Nazi prison guard and its aftermath. In Yue Tao’s mordant, witty, suspenseful novel, I see the struggle for existence, hear desperate cries, and feel the anguish of painful memories-human resilience is a gift to posterity. The Reader was chosen as an Oprahs Book Club selection in 1999. The Reader By Bernhard Schlink Stylistic Features & Language Techniques Stylistic Features & Language Techniques Narrator Schlinks use of a first person narrative throughout the novel lends a credibility necessary to this type of fictional personal account. ![]() With cricket-fight gambling as the leitmotiv, Shanghai Blue weaves past and present, East and West, belonging and estrangement, truth and deceit, fatality and choice into a tight plot with sidelights on China today and its Communist burden. Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, the book from which the movie was based, shares with his thoughts on Kate Winslets Oscar®-winning performance and provides some insight to his stunning novel. The truth takes her by surprise after illicit sex on New Year’s Eve: the past is unspeakably worse than she thought-and not even past. The deeper she digs into her own mystery, the more obscure and sinister it becomes. Her only clue is cricket fighting-a millennium-old Chinese pastime turned gambling racket where nouveaux riches meet the underworld by night. When Lan comes home to Shanghai after ten years in Europe she finds the city enigmatic: people she knew from childhood seem odd-her own identity is a mystery.Īn adopted orphan, she tries to locate her biological parents, but everyone who could help is evasive.
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