Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. So starts Bernhard Schlink’s The Weekend, in which Schlink, author of the internationally best-selling The Reader, “introduces just enough characters to keep the story moving and the reader guessing” (Associated Press). The Daily Beast calls The Weekend “a deftly written and spry look at how we deal with others.”
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, a haunting story of love and guilt in which the legacy of Nazi crimes enters a young man’s life in an unexpected and irrevocable way.
Michael Berg is fifteen and suffering from hepatitis. [...]
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