A story about a Guard in 'The Camps'. Germany.  Perpetual punishment? Absolution to descendants?
Channel: Interpreting Tradition
Date: 22/04/2024

InTrad 60/24 Germany's guilt. Israel's manipulation. We explore guilt, remorse, shame. Way forward. A story based on the novel "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink (1997). Blurbs: "One of the most successful, one of the richest, one of the most overwhelming novels I have read for a very long time... entirely new and profoundly original" (Jorge Semprun, Le Monde). "Breathtaking... a novel that sucks you in with its power, so that once you start to read, you cannot put it down.  Truly exciting" (Focus Munich). "Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex" (New York Times). "Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of post-war Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, Michael is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age.  In time she becomes his lover.  She enthrals him with her passion, but puzzles him with her odd silences.  Then she inexplicably disappears.  When Michael next sees her, he's a young law student and Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime.  But as he watches her refuse to defend herself, he gradually realizes that his former lover may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder" (George Steiner). 
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