Olga by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Charlotte Collins, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£16.99). Olga is a poignant portrait of a woman out of step with her time, but too predictable to truly satisfy. The letters confirm Olga’s stoicism, her love of simple pleasures and contain two secrets that, frustratingly, Schlink has already given away. More Buying Choices 33.36 (5 used & new offers) Guilt About The Past. More Buying Choices 40.78 (6 used & new offers) Paperback. We guess the major reveals will come in the novel’s epistolary section. by Arthur Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink Jan 6, 2001. Some years later, he unearths the letters she sent to Herbert c/o Troms ø’s poste restante. Bernhard Schlink, der 1944 in Großdornberg bei Bielefeld geboren wurde, war bereits erfolgreicher Jurist und Professor für Öffentliches Recht, als er im Jahre 1987 gemeinsam mit seinem Freund und Co-Autor Walter Popp seinen ersten Roman, »Selbs Justiz«, herausbrachte. They remain friends until her death and Ferdinand is sole heir to her modest savings. She is the antithesis of Herbert, a woman defined by her love of education, unable to reach her potential because of her circumstances, and Schlink clearly wants us to admire her fidelity and calm resolve.īy the 1950s, Olga, now deaf, works as a seamstress for a family in south-west Germany and cares for their son, Ferdinand. Schlink deals swiftly with Germany’s colonial aspirations in south-west Africa, the Herero genocide and its role in two world wars, while Olga’s life is related in careful, unadorned prose. The Reader (German: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. Olga is the antithesis of Herbert, a woman defined by her love of education Olga remains in Tilsit, finding solace with her neighbours’ son, Eik, whom she regales with Herbert’s adventures, until the second world war drives her west. The couple carry on regardless, spending more time apart than together, as Herbert indulges his wanderlust until his disappearance in the Arctic in 1913. Bernhard Schlink is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Reader.

ගිම්හාන ගීතය by Bernhard Schlink