Homecoming - Softcover

Schlink, Prof Bernhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753823101 ISBN 13: 9780753823101

Publisher: Phoenix, 2008

Synopsis

As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who believes him to be dead.

But the novel is incomplete and Peter becomes obsessed by the question of what happened when the soldier and his wife met again.

Years later, the adult Peter remembers the novel and embarks on a search for the missing pages that soon becomes a mysterious search for his own father, a German soldier whom he always believed was killed in the war.

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Review:

"Praise for THE READER: "
"A formally beautiful, disturbing, and finally morally devastating novel. From the first page, "The Reader" ensnares both heart and mind."
--"Los Angeles Times
""A masterly work... The reviewer's sole and privileged function is to say as loudly as he is able, 'Read this' and 'Read it again.'"
--George Steiner

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Homecoming", "fueled by a mystery, is also a powerful meditation on justice, history, and the nature of evil. . . . Schlink has written another lean, meticulously structured, disquieting thought-provoker." --"Los Angeles Times ""A beguilingly oblique novel. . . . Despite its intricate, maze-like progression, Homecoming has surprising narrative thrust." --"The Economist""Sensitive and disturbing. . . . The reader's mind opens to the story like a plant unfurling its leaves to the sun." --"The New York Times Book Review""Plot twists and surprises and sometimes outright lies complicate the book's multilayered homecoming theme. . . . Schlink has woven a homecoming tale as fascinating as Homer's "Odyssey", its inspiration." --"Seattle Times"

"Homecoming," "fueled by a mystery, is also a powerful meditation on justice, history, and the nature of evil. . . . Schlink has written another lean, meticulously structured, disquieting thought-provoker." --"Los Angeles Times ""A beguilingly oblique novel. . . . Despite its intricate, maze-like progression, Homecoming has surprising narrative thrust." --"The Economist""Sensitive and disturbing. . . . The reader's mind opens to the story like a plant unfurling its leaves to the sun." --"The New York Times Book Review""Plot twists and surprises and sometimes outright lies complicate the book's multilayered homecoming theme. . . . Schlink has woven a homecoming tale as fascinating as Homer's "Odyssey," its inspiration." --"Seattle Times"

Book Description:

A mesmerising tale of discovery, of the search for identity and of the need for understanding and forgiveness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0753823101
• ISBN 13: 9780753823101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336