The Reader - Bernhard Schlink squats a shanty town

squats a shanty town

and her drive

Only then does she dare to face her story and to share it

with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of António Salazar

he declares himself ‘collectively responsible

The Reader - Bernhard Schlink squats a shanty townFor 15 year old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realise that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal.