Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this series hosted by the Goethe-Institut. All books can be read in recent English translation or in the German original; discussion will be in English. Led by local German professor
Amanda Sheffer (The Catholic University of America), this book club focuses on contemporary fiction and will explore experiences and thoughts about the text.
The famous image of a woman, long forgotten, reappears suddenly. Shocking for the art world, but also to three men, who once loved this woman – and feel betrayed by her. A reunion happens in a bay on the Australian coast: the men want back what allegedly belongs to them. Only one takes the chance, to begin anew with the woman, even when not much time remains.
Bernhard Schlink, born 1944 near Bielefeld, is a lawyer and lives in Berlin and New York. He published his first crime novel,
Self’s Punishment, with Walter Popp. In 2001 he completed the trilogy about the private detective Gerhard Selb with
Self’s Murder.
The Reader (1995), the 2000 and 2010 stories
Flights of Love and
Summer Lies, as well as
Homecoming: A Novel (2006) and
The Weekend: A Novel gave him world acclaim.
In cooperation with the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at The Catholic University of America.
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