Summary
Bernhard Schlink: Homecoming Homecoming" is a work that speaks in an extremely striking way about guilt, justice, history, identity and evil, using the idea of homecoming as a metaphor for Peter's journey towards truth and love. As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer is fascinated by the story he discovers in the pages of an unpublished novel edited by his grandparents living in Switzerland. The story of a German prisoner of war who succeeds escape from the Russian camp, overcoming many obstacles to return home to the woman who thinks he is dead. But the novel becomes obsessed with the question of the reunion of the soldier and his beloved. Years later, the search for the missing pages, however, will turn into a mysterious search for his own father, who, as he is told, was killed in the war as all the details of the past begin to be revealed, Peter is forced to reconsider his own identity and realize that reality is sometimes a reflection of the expectations of others and that truth and fiction are often intertwined, and more than we would like
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