Bernhard Schlink
1) The reader
Author
Language
English
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
"A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old
2) The weekend
Author
Language
English
Description
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.
They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they’ve taken since their youth. But this isn’t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren’t your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four years, Jörg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been...
They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they’ve taken since their youth. But this isn’t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren’t your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four years, Jörg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been...
3) Olga
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the modern age can provide, her life is irremediably changed....
4) Summer lies
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hired by an artist and the beautiful woman he painted, who want to reclaim a portrait from the woman's husband to keep it from being deliberately destroyed, a naive young lawyer in Frankfurt becomes embroiled in an unexpectedly toxic case marked by a disappearance, a natural disaster and a past betrayal.
7) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
10) Self's murder
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seventy-something private investigator Gerhard Self is hired to track down a mysterious silent bank partner, a case which eventually leads him to eastern Germany and some of the most dangerous villains he has ever met.
11) Olga
Author
Publisher
Diogenes Verlag
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
3
Language
Deutsch
Description
Die Geschichte der Liebe zwischen einer Frau, die gegen die Vorurteile ihrer Zeit kämpft, und einem Mann, der sich mit afrikanischen und arktischen Eskapaden an die Träume seiner Zeit von Größe und Macht verliert. Erst im Scheitern wird er mit der Realität konfrontiert – wie viele seines Volks und seiner Zeit. Die Frau bleibt ihm ihr Leben lang verbunden, in Gedanken, Briefen und einem großen Aufbegehren.
12) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
13) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
14) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Language
English
Formats
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...