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Zij is als beeld zijn leven in gestapt, en zo is hij verliefd geworden op haar - en haar ook weer kwijtgeraakt. Als haar inmiddels wereldberoemde portret, een naakte vrouw op een trap, weer opduikt, is dat als een signaal voor hem: zij wil dat ik haar vind. Een beroemd schilderij van een vrouw, dat lang gold als spoorloos, duikt plotseling weer op. Een verrassing voor de kunstwereld, maar ook voor een advocaat, die - lang geleden - in een con...

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.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law ...

Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo i...

A classic noir thriller about love and deception from the bestselling author of The Reader. Georg Polger ekes out a lonely living as a freelance translator in the south of France, until he is approached by a certain Mr. Bulnakov, who has a intriguing proposition: Georg is to take over a local translation agency and finish a project left by the previous owner, who died in a mysterious accident. The money is right and then there is the matter of...

Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.

Una novela del despertar emocional que nunca olvidará. Cuando el adolescente Michael Berg cae enfermo volviendo a casa del colegio, es ayudado por Hanna, una mujer que lo dobla en edad. Con el tiempo, ella se convertirá en su amante, cautivándolo con su pasión, pero confundiéndolo con sus silencios. Pero un día, Hanna desaparece sin dejar rastro. Siete años después, Michael, ahora estudiante de derecho, vuelve a ver a Hanna cuando ésta es llev...

From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In "After the Season, " a man falls qui...

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Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story within a story and a master of disguises who may or may not exist. Homecoming is a tale of fathers and sons, men and women, war and peace. It reveals th...

Over de liefde is nooit alles gezegd. Bernhard Schlink maakt in 'De liefdesval' de liefde tot brandpunt van zeven bedwelmende verhalen over onderdrukte verlangens, over uit wanhoop aangegane avontuurtjes, over de macht der gewoonte en over een dappere keuze.

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Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self to trac...

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The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet and is directed by Stephen Daldry. The release date is currently quoted as 12th December 2008.

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the listener, this mesmerizing audiobook--and soon-to-be motion picture--is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.