German · b. 1944
Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and novelist best known internationally for The Reader, a bestselling and widely acclaimed novel grappling with guilt, love, and the legacy of the Holocaust.
Bernhard Schlink is a professor of law and a former judge as well as a novelist, and questions of justice, guilt, and moral responsibility run throughout his fiction.
His novel The Reader (1995) became an international bestseller and the first German book to top the New York Times bestseller list, telling the story of a young man’s relationship with an older woman later revealed to have been a Nazi camp guard. It was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film. He has also written crime fiction and other novels.
Schlink is admired for his spare, thoughtful prose and his serious engagement with how postwar Germany confronts the moral inheritance of the Holocaust.
by Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink's international bestseller. In postwar Germany, a teenage boy has an affair with an older woman who abruptly disappears — only to reappear years later in a courtroom, on trial for Nazi war crimes, forcing him to confront guilt, complicity, and the generation that came after.
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