The Granddaughter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
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From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally celebrated author of The Reader, comes The Granddaughter, a searching and emotionally resonant novel that confronts Germany's divided past through the intimate lens of family, grief, and identity. When Kaspar's wife Birgit dies suddenly, he discovers an unfinished manuscript that reveals she harbored a secret life rooted in the former East Germany — a life that leads him to a granddaughter he never knew existed. His quest to find this young woman takes him deep into the world of far-right nationalist communities, forcing a confrontation not just with Birgit's hidden history, but with the fractures that still run through the heart of modern Germany. Schlink, translated here with precision and grace by Charlotte Collins, writes with the same measured, morally probing intelligence that made The Reader a global phenomenon. The Granddaughter is a novel acutely attuned to the weight of inherited ideology and the quiet catastrophes of lives unlived in the open — a meditation on love, political radicalism, and the question of whether understanding can ever substitute for rescue. It is a book that leaves the reader asking whether reconciliation across ideological divides is an act of courage, or simply an illusion.
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Format: Paperback
Published: 2024, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally celebrated author of The Reader, comes The Granddaughter, a searching and emotionally resonant novel that confronts Germany's divided past through the intimate lens of family, grief, and identity. When Kaspar's wife Birgit dies suddenly, he discovers an unfinished manuscript that reveals she harbored a secret life rooted in the former East Germany — a life that leads him to a granddaughter he never knew existed. His quest to find this young woman takes him deep into the world of far-right nationalist communities, forcing a confrontation not just with Birgit's hidden history, but with the fractures that still run through the heart of modern Germany. Schlink, translated here with precision and grace by Charlotte Collins, writes with the same measured, morally probing intelligence that made The Reader a global phenomenon. The Granddaughter is a novel acutely attuned to the weight of inherited ideology and the quiet catastrophes of lives unlived in the open — a meditation on love, political radicalism, and the question of whether understanding can ever substitute for rescue. It is a book that leaves the reader asking whether reconciliation across ideological divides is an act of courage, or simply an illusion.