Summary
Bernhard Schlink: The Granddaughter
*The book is underlined in places with a ballpoint pen.
In the summer of 1964, a student from East Berlin and a student from West Berlin fall in love. He helps her escape to West Berlin. Only after her death does the 70-year-old discover what his wife kept from him all his life. Kaspar decides to do what Birgit longed for but could not find the strength for, and this quest, which leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, turns into a journey into the past and confronting the wounds and scars left on people by the German Democratic Republic, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the adaptation of East Germany to the West.
Grandson of Bernhard Schlink, author of the famous novel The Woman I Am čitao, is a poignant story about the clash of generations, the impossibility of forgetting one's past, about the paradoxes of love and time. The novel was translated from German by Helen Sinković.
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