Eventually, he started recording his favourite books and sends them for her. He is still battling with his feelings for Hanna and tries to come to terms with it. Michael now has a daughter from his failed marriage. He wants to help her get a lighter sentence but she’s too proud to be exposed of her secret. Then Michael realises what she has been concealing. In the trial, Hanna refuses to deny the act she didn’t do. He is stunned to see Hanna as one of the defendants who were SS guards and guilty of licking the women inside a burning church. Michael studies law and he joins a group of students observing a war crimes trial. He’s helplessly and hopelessly in love with her.
They fight and argue occasionally but Michael always ends up begging her forgiveness. When Hanna asks Michael to read to her, it becomes the ritual part of their affair. He returns the next day to apologize and their affair begins.
#The reader by bernhard schlink writing crack
Through the crack of the door, he watches her changing out of her uniforms and when she catches him, he runs away. Hanna is 36 years old and works as a tram conductor. When he recovers from hepatitis, he visits the woman to thank her. Michael is taken ill on his way home from school and a woman helps him out. The book comprises three parts and each part takes place in a different time period in Michael’s life. Set in the post-war Germany, it tells the story of the protagonist, Michael Berg, from the age of 15 to his old age. The Reader ( Der Vorleser) by Bernhard Schlink was originally written in German in 1995 and translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway.
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