
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink (1995)
“A fifteen-year-old boy's affair with an older woman becomes a reckoning with the Holocaust, illiteracy, and the moral inheritance Germany's second generation cannot escape.”
EraContemporary European
Pages218
Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging
AP Appearances3
Major Themes
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guilt
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memory
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holocaust-legacy
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literacy
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generational-responsibility
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love
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shame
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