[or on re-reading the Reader (Bernhard Schlink)]
Been away and got around to re-reading this book that we had at BATS way back in 2004. Again moved by its honesty dealing with Germany's past. Reminded of another very different book that I've just finished - Jane Austen's Persuasion - another book dealing with what-if's re-meeting a person one loved years later, though Austen gives the happy ending. I'd forgotten the ending of the Reader and still found it as devastating! Hanna goes to her end during the whole of the second half of the book which is as inevitable as those of her victims - but in her case chosen.
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