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Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving a ...Show more
Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Guilt is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who bel ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a child Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in a volume of fiction edited by his Swiss grandparents. He initially reads only part of the tale, which has been torn from the bound proofs, the blank back pages of which he uses for his homework. He becomes obsessed with this tale of ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.A novel of love, passion and history from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. 'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the tu ...Show more
Self's Murder - OP by Bernhard Schlink
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Gerhard Self, the Sweet-Afton smoking, sambuca-swilling, most unlikely of PIs is back in a new tale of deception and intrigue, set against the backdrop of post-reunification Germany.After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to del ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
The Gordian Knot by Bernhard Schlink
$40.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take o ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For 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, a ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 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 ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
For 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, a ...Show more
The Reader: 20th Anniversary Edition by Bernhard Schlink
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For fifteen-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 lat ...Show more
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