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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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. A formally beautiful disturbing and finally morally devastating novel. --Los Angeles Times 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.