Nach 23 Jahren Haft wird der Terrorist Jörg aus dem Gefängnis entlassen, seine offizielle Begnadigung durch den Bundespräsidenten soll erst noch verkündet werden. Jörgs ältere Schwester Christiane holt ihn zu einem Treffen mit Freunden und Unterstützern von früher ab in ihr abgeschieden liegendes...
Riconciliarsi è complicato. Con il mondo, là fuori, dopo vent'anni di galera, con tuo figlio che non ti perdona di essere stato terrorista, con sé stessi, perché quello che hai fatto non ha cambiato di una virgola la società che detestavi. Ora le persone più vicine si riuniscono intorno a te per ...
From the blurb, you can probably work out that this isn't a noir styled book. A lot of the attraction comes from the eccentricity of both Gerhard Self, and the style of storytelling, which is often slightly arch and funny.Which is rather unexpected given that Self is a widowed private detective, ...
Una novela del despertar emocional que nunca olvidará.Cuando el adolescente Michael Berg cae enfermo volviendo a casa del colegio, es ayudado por Hanna, una mujer que lo dobla en edad. Con el tiempo, ella se convertirá en su amante, cautivándolo con su pasión, pero confundiéndolo con sus silencio...
A Quiet Little MysterySchlink, B. (2007). Self’s Deception. New York: Vintage/Black Lizard. (Translated from the German by Peter Constantine).It’s been a long time since I’ve been in Heidelberg, and I enjoyed this book’s descriptions of life along the Neckar. Gerhard Self is a PI hired by phone t...
"For my generation the past is still very present... " states Bernhard Schlink, internationally known primarily for his novel THE READER, in the second of his six thought-provoking essays on "Guilt about the past". A highly respected jurist and law professor (emeritus) in Germany, he presents a ...
SCHLINK, Bernhard: „Die gordische Schleife“, Zürich 1988Eines der früheren Bücher von Schlink. Eine Agentengeschichte. Ein junger deutscher Anwalt, der ausgestiegen ist und im Süden Frankreichs als Übersetzer arbeitet. Er kommt in den Kreis von Spionage, weil er für Kampfhubschrauber Dokumentatio...
She was enjoying the champagne, enjoying her friends, and turned to Jörg once more with her familiar, loving attentiveness. After the champagne there was dinner, more formal and delicious than the previous evening, with a white tablecloth, her grandmother’s dishes and cutlery and silver candles, ...
“I’d be happy if I didn’t have to go back in there,” he said, nodding toward Nägelsbach’s room. “Did you get the forensics report?” “The forensics report?” Then he remembered what I wanted and that the report was lying on his desk. “Come with me.” Both chairs in front of his desk were heaped high...
The pleasure it gave him when the invitation came, when the visa was stamped into his passport, when he boarded the plane in Frankfurt and reached JFK with his luggage in the warmth of the evening and took a taxi into the city. He had even enjoyed the flight, although the rows were tight together...
During the trial the manuscript was available, but to those directly involved. I had to read the book in English, an unfamiliar and laborious exercise at the time. And as always, the alien language, unmastered and struggled over, created a strange concatenation of distance and immediacy. I worked...