Reciter

How great must the fear of exposure be for a person to confess to mass murder? This is one of the questions that Bernhard Schlink poses in his best-selling novel The Reader, which begins in West Germany in 1958. The author tells the story of the secret love between a 15-year-old boy and a former Auschwitz concentration camp guard who is 21 years older than him. But later, the love affair turns into a long story about guilt and shame, about moral choices that change people's lives, about betrayal, alienation, loneliness, pain...