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Zusatztext Praise for The Weekend “Schlink avoids the easy route of condemnation and salvation . . . The book’s real strength is the finely wrought dynamic among the characters! whose relationships and histories are fraught with a powerful sense of tension and possibly untoward potential.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for The Reader “Arresting! philosophically elegant! morally complex . . . Schlink tells this story with marvelous directness and simplicity! his writing stripped bare of any of the standard gimmicks of dramatization.” —The New York Times “[A] beautiful! disturbing! and finally morally devastating novel. From the first page! The Reader ensnares both heart and mind.” —Los Angeles Times Praise for Homecoming “A beguilingly oblique novel . . . Despite its intricate! mazelike 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 Praise for Flights of Love “An outstanding collection.” —The Wall Street Journal “Intimate! smart! powerful . . . As memorable as The Reader . . . Dazzling.” —The Washington Post Book World Informationen zum Autor Bernhard Schlink is the author of the internationally best-selling novel The Reader , which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. He divides his time between Berlin and New York. Klappentext Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they've taken since their youth. But this isn't just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren't your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four years, Jörg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been released from prison. The announcement of his pardon will send shock waves through the country, but before the announcement, his friends-some of whom were Baader-Meinhof sympathizers or those who clung to them-gather for his first weekend of freedom. They have been summoned by Jörg's devoted sister, Christiane, whose concern for her brother's safety is matched only by the unrelenting zeal of Marko, a young man intent on having Jörg continue to fight for the cause. Bernhard Schlink is at his finest as The Weekend unfolds. Passions are pitted against pragmatism, ideas against actions, and hopes against heartbreaking realities. One She got there just before seven. She’d expected to make more headway and arrive sooner by traveling in the early morning. When she hit more road construction, and yet more, she grew nervous. Would he walk through the gate, look out for her in vain, his ?rst reaction one of disappointment, of discouragement? The sun rose in the rearview mirror—she would rather have been driving toward it than away from it, even if it had dazzled her. She parked where she had always parked and walked the short path to the gate as slowly as she had always walked. Everything to do with her own life she cleared from her mind, to make room for him. He always had a ?rm place in her mind; not an hour passed without her wondering what he was doing right now, how he was getting on. But each time she met him, he alone existed for her. Now that his life was no longer in suspended animation, now that it was starting to move once more, he needed her full attention. The old sandstone building stood in the sun. As so often before, she was strangely moved that a building should serve such an ugly purpose and at the same time be so beautiful: the walls covered with Virginia creeper, ?eld and forest green in spring a...
