When I was fifteen, I got hepatitis. It started in the fall and lasted until spring. As the old year darkened and turned colder, I got weaker and weaker. Things didn't start to improve until the new year. January was warm, and my mother moved my bed out onto the balcony. I saw sky, sun, clouds, and heard the voices of children playing in the courtyard. As dusk came one evening in February, there was the sound of a blackbird singing.
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Een jongeman kijkt terug op de relatie die hij als 15-jarige had met een 36-jarige vrouw met een geheim oorlogsverleden.
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Fiction, Romance, Germany, World War 2, Holocaust, war crimes, Atrocities, World War, 1939-1945, War crime trials, History, Man-woman relationship, Nazis, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical, Germany, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Activities, Large type books, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-12-21, New York Times bestseller, Guilt, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Germans, Psychology, German language materials, Love stories, Psychological fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945, Procesos por crimenes de guerra, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Novela, Atrocidades, Man-woman relationships, Analfabetismo, Seduction, Novela psicológica, Law students, Procesos por crímenes de guerra, Illiterate persons, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Seducción, Ficción, Schuldgevoelens, Verraad, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, Trials (Murder), Nazisme, Romans, Littérature allemande, Roman allemand, Translations into English, Romance fiction, Study and teaching, Activity programs, Book club in a bagPlaces
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Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: Baarn : Ambo, 1996.
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Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
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