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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An incredibly interesting point of view on a sensitive yet thought-provoking topic ( ) Many years ago, I saw a small portion of the movie version of The Reader on TV. My feelings about an affair between a teenage boy and a thirty-something woman set aside, this is a book I had planned to read but never got around to it before. I won't repeat a summarized version of the book, as there is a decent synopsis of the story available on Goodreads and elsewhere. Telling the story through the lens of Michael Berg as both as a teenager and adult, lent itself to a unique descriptiveness that kept me engaged as a reader. We never know as much about Hanna, as we are mostly restricted to Michael's observation's and feelings about her. I have seen Schlink's writing described as sparse but don't know if I agree with that assertion. The author manages to convey some vivid imagery throughout the book, which becomes more sophisticated as Michael gains some maturity. Untimately, this story is a reflection on how well we actually know people, how to come to terms with betrayal and what makes a person be characterized as good or bad. These types of questions and moral dilemmas can be difficult to answer. I guess I will summarize this one as it is old (1995) and also a movie--so I'm not likely to spoil it for anyone. This is a complicated story, beginning with a sultry relationship between a fifteen year old boy and a 30 something year old woman, that, when the female partner's past catches up to her, evolves into a crimes of war trial and aftermath that asks one to ponder what circumstances might lull someone into feeling that sending innocent people to their death is reasonable, and how another, who had once loved such a criminal might try to reconcile that person's behavior and their own love of that person once discovering this truth long after the passion has been spent but not it's memory. Very interesting. The protagonist is either deeply emblematic of the problem with humanity, or it’s confusing. Why was he so dead inside? Was his affair more traumatic than her life? Strange. The tone and pacing of the book lent itself to a kind of banality that worked. The character, Hannah, was quite complex—ignorant but kind, handicapped by her illiteracy into choices without real choice. What is the guilt of the executioner? That’s the question and the lingering guilt in the subsequent generations. A teen boy stumbles into an affair with an older woman, who acts secretive throughout the relationship before simply vanishing one day. A couple of years later their paths cross again when he, as part of a school course, attends the trial of a group of Nazi soldiers and finds that she is one of the defendants. He struggles between being horrified and feeling sympathy for her. This one didn’t really work for me, and I wonder if it at least partly is a cultural thing. Then again, I generally just don’t care for novels that are mostly character studies with little plot, and rarely enjoy stories with zero likeable characters. So.
What starts out as a story of sexual awakening, something that Colette might have written, a ''Cherie and the Last of Cherie'' set in Germany after the war, is suddenly darkened by history and tragic secrets. In the end, one is both moved and disturbed, saddened and confused, and, above all, powerfully affected by a tale that seems to bear with it the weight of truth. Schlink's daring fusion of 19th-century post-romantic, post-fairy-tale models with the awful history of the 20th century makes for a moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful work, an original contribution to the impossible genre with the questionable name of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, ''coming to terms with the past.'' Pertence à série publicadaTem a adaptaçãoTem como guia de referência/texto acompanhanteTem um guia de estudo para estudantesGuia para Professores e EnsinoPrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his loverâ??then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murd Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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