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Narrated by:
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Sam Peter Jackson
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By:
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Bernhard Schlink
About this listen
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For fifteen-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems.
Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing another deep secret.©1995 Bernhard Schlink (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group
Critic reviews
Deeply moving, sensitive enough to make me wince, a Holocaust novel, but light years away from the common run (Ruth Rendell)
Great Story and Excellent Narrator
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Very thought provoking and deeper than I expected
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A brilliant insight into German psychology
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How the dead judge the living
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Well worth a listen, Kate Winslet thoroughly deserved her Oscar for her performance in the movie.
Melancholic
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Beautiful
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Thought provoking
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Recording is very poor
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