The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink violence and decadence of twentieth-century

violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity

Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense

it seems that in learning about wood

the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger-than-life appetite can bear

The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink violence and decadence of twentieth-centuryMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her