The weekend
By: Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780297863175
Subjects: Fiction; Ex-convicts; Rote Armee Fraktion
Description: Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences.
Notes: Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences. After 24 years, Joerg; title: a convicted murderer and terrorist, is released from prison on a pardon. A former member of the Red Army Faction (or Baader-Meinhof Group), the announcement of Joerg's release is sure to send shock waves throughout Germany. But before this happens, his group of friends; title: most of whom were RAF sympathizers; title: gather for his first weekend of freedom. They are invited by Christiane, Joerg's devoted sister, whose suffocating concern for her brother is matched only by the unrelenting pull of Marcko, a dangerously passionate young man intent on using Joerg to continue the cause.