The Reader

Bernhard Schlink

Original title: Der Vorleser

first published 1995 Pantheon Books, 1997 218 pages

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Sie ist reizbar, rätselhaft und viel älter als er … und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie hütet verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre später sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und bedrängenden Vergangenheit. Auf dem Nachhauseweg gerät der fünfzehnjährige Michael Berg in eine heikle Situation. Eine Frau, Mitte dreißig, kümm...

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Carol Brown Janeway 4 printings we hold · 1998–2001 · Phoenix Books
Carol Janeway 1 printing we hold · 1999 · Random House Audio

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Reader edition · 2022 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781399603232
El lector paperback · 2021 · Univers Llibres · 268 pages · 9788418375255
Lector edition · 2019 · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · 208 pages · 9788433902351
Der Vorleser paperback · 2017 · Diogenes Verlag AG · 9783257261349
Reader edition · 2017 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781474603430
Le liseur edition · 2017 · Gallimard · 9782070793938
Čytec' edition · 2016 · Folio · 201 pages · 9789660376311
De voorlezer edition · 2014 · Cossee · 204 pages · 9789059365278
El lector hardcover · 2013 · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · 216 pages · 9788433961266
El lector paperback · 2013 · labutxaca · 176 pages · 9788499306025
Reader edition · 2012 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 240 pages · 9781780221861
Reader edition · 2011 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 224 pages · 9781780221434

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