These unsentimental and haunting stories explore the search for love in a world where the past casts a dark shadow: the impossibility of being a German in love with an American Jew; the mistrust between East and West Berliners; a widower coming to terms with his dead wife's secret affair..... Schlink's characters debate, socialise, drink coffee, play chess and live in clean little towns, but nothing is that easy and the German perspective is fascinating.
(Victoria Grey-Edwards - bwl 17 February 2003 ) |
