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The novel traces the relationship between a German lawyer, Michael, and an older woman Hanna, beginning with their affair when he is fifteen in post-war Germany. It then goes on to desribe his later discovery as a law student attending war crimes trials, that she had been a guard at a camp attatched to Auschwitz - for which she is imprisoned.
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Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany is 1944. A professor of law at Humboldt University, Berlin and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the major international bestselling novel and movie The Reader, short story collection Flights of Love and several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Berlin and New York.
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