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Books by Bernhard Schlink






Catalogues(1st Edition)
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Volume One 1865-1881
by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70797-1, ISBN: 0-375-70797-2

"Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his ..."






Summer Lies
Stories (Vintage International)
by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Janeway, Carol Brown Janeway
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94832-8, ISBN: 0-307-94832-3

"From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of "The Reader, "come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. "Summer Lies "brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mElange of beautifully rendered relationships. In "After the Season," a man ..."






Flights of Love(Reprint)
Stories
by Bernhard Schlink, John E. Woods
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72555-5, ISBN: 0-375-72555-5

"Flights of Love sees Bernhard Schlink build on the success of his international bestselling debut novel, The Reader, with a clutch of short stories that tell of the variety of love, distilled into seven splinters of narrative. The pick of the seven, the opening "Girl with Lizard," depicts a remote male character who fixates on a painting of his father's, which he is to discover, like his father, has a familiarly unsavory past, and which ..."






The Woman on the Stairs(Reprint)
A Novel (Vintage International)
by Bernhard Schlink, Joyce Hackett, Bradley Schmidt
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-91234-8, ISBN: 1-101-91234-0

"In a museum far from home, a lawyer stumbles across a painting of a woman he once knew, Irene. Decades before, he had become entangled in her affairs when he was called on to settle a dispute between her husband, who had commissioned the portrait, and the painter of the work—who was also her lover. When, ultimately, the lawyer fell in love with her himself and risked everything for her, she mysteriously disappeared—along with the painti ..."






Self's Murder(1st Edition)
(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Bernhard Schlink, Peter Constantine
Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70909-8, ISBN: 0-375-70909-6

"Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self ..."






Homecoming(Reprint)
(Vintage International)
by Bernhard Schlink, Michael Henry Heim
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72557-9, ISBN: 0-375-72557-1

"Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story within a story and a master of disguises who may or may not exist. Homecoming is a tale of fathers and sons, men and women, war and peace. It rev ..."






The Weekend(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Bernhard Schlink, Shaun Whiteside
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Pantheon
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37815-6, ISBN: 0-307-37815-2

"Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they’ve taken since their youth. But this isn’t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren’t your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four years, Jörg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been released from prison. The anno ..."






Homecoming(1st Edition)
A novel
by Bernhard Schlink, Michael Henry Heim
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Pantheon
Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42091-7, ISBN: 0-375-42091-6

"The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit.A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after al ..."






Flights of Love(1st Edition)
Stories
by Bernhard Schlink, John E. Woods
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Pantheon
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42090-0, ISBN: 0-375-42090-8

"From the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, here is a collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love—love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion.As his myriad fans know from The Reader, Bernhard Schlink’s power as a storyteller resides in his cool compassion and in the intelligence that he wields like ..."






The Reader(1st Edition)
by Bernhard Schlink
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage International
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-45489-8, ISBN: 0-307-45489-4

"Originally published in Switzerland and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading and shame in post-war Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a tr ..."






El lector
by Bernhard Schlink, Joan Parra Contreras
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Espanol
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47310-3, ISBN: 0-307-47310-4

"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 silencios. Pero un día, Hanna desaparece sin dejar rastro. Siete años después, Michael, ahora estudiante de derecho, vuelve a ver a Hanna cuando ésta e ..."






The Reader(Reprint)
by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway
Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 1999 by Pantheon
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40826-7, ISBN: 0-375-40826-6

"Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his ..."






The Woman on the Stairs
A Novel
by Bernhard Schlink, Bradley Schmidt, Joyce Hackett
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Pantheon
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87071-6, ISBN: 1-101-87071-0

"A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader—a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love.   A brilliant and naïve young lawyer’s life is changed forever when a painter and his subject—a breathtakingly beautiful woman—appear at his office in Frankfurt. The woman’s husband is deliberately marring th ..."






Summer Lies(1st Edition)
Stories
by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Janeway
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Pantheon
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90726-4, ISBN: 0-307-90726-0

"From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In ”After the Season,” a man fal ..."






The Weekend(1st Edition)
(Vintage International)
by Bernhard Schlink, Shaun Whiteside
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-45631-1, ISBN: 0-307-45631-5

""Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart." They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they ve taken since their youth. But this isn t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren t your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four years, Jorg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been released from prison. The an ..."






The Gordian Knot(Unabridged)
(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
by Bernhard Schlink, Peter Constantine
Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72556-2, ISBN: 0-375-72556-3

"A classic noir thriller about love and deception from the bestselling author of The Reader.  Georg Polger ekes out a lonely living as a freelance translator in the south of France, until he is approached by a certain Mr. Bulnakov, who has a intriguing proposition: Georg is to take over a local translation agency and finish a project left by the previous owner, who died in a mysterious accident. The money is right and then there is the m ..."






Guilt About the Past(Reprint)
by Bernhard Schlink
Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2010 by House Of Anansi Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88784-959-6, ISBN: 0-88784-959-8

"The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt both as a uniquely German experience and as a global one. Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, how the role of law functions in this process, an ..."






Homecoming(Large Print)
by Bernhard Schlink, Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, Shiyong Wang, Shuo Zhang, Michael Henry Heim
Paperback, 433 Pages, Published 2008 by Random House Large Print Publishing
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-0-7393-2777-7, ISBN: 0-7393-2777-1

"Losing his father during World War II, Peter Debauer grows up with his mother and few memories of his father, until, as an adult, he embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about his past, following a trail that takes him across Europe, to ..."






Self's Deception
by Bernhard Schlink, Peter Constantine
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70908-1, ISBN: 0-375-70908-8

"Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, tha ..."






Self's Punishment(1st Edition)
by Bernhard Schlink, Walter Popp, Rebecca Morrison
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70907-4, ISBN: 0-375-70907-X

"As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who’s invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant. But his investigation leads to murder, and from there to the charnel house of Germany’s past, w ..."



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