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Bernhard Schlink

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in Bielefeld, Germany

July 06, 1944

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Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Politics

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Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 275,496 ratings · 19,211 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Reader 3.79 avg rating — 235,175 ratings — published 1995 — 324 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins (translator) 4.14 avg rating — 10,280 ratings — published 2021 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olga by Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 6,094 ratings — published 2018 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink, Bradley Schmidt (Translator) 3.23 avg rating — 3,996 ratings — published 2014 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flights of Love: Stories 3.72 avg rating — 3,326 ratings — published 2000 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sommerlügen 3.76 avg rating — 2,480 ratings — published 2010 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abschiedsfarben 3.74 avg rating — 2,426 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homecoming 3.24 avg rating — 2,636 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Wochenende 3.17 avg rating — 2,673 ratings — published 2008 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das späte Leben 3.72 avg rating — 2,077 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

tags: redemption

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“I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

tags: love, philosophy

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“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

tags: happiness, memory, pain

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July 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages

48 votes, 21.6%

1945, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

28 votes, 12.6%

1951, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pages

21 votes, 9.5%

1957, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 201 pages

19 votes, 8.6%

1925, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, 246 pages

19 votes, 8.6%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages

14 votes, 6.3%

1944, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1982, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 448 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1968, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 294 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1992, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, 352 pages

12 votes, 5.4%

1938, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, 269 pages

8 votes, 3.6%

1986, The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart, 80 pages

1 vote, 0.5%

222 total votes

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