The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink who has been in prison

who has been in prison all this time

Translator: Geoffrey Trousselot

he can do nothing but write letters to his family

violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity

The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink who has been in prisonMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her