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Book Club - September 16th

Alina Bronsky, Der Scherbenpark / Broken Glass Park (2008)

 

The heroine of this engrossing and thoroughly contemporary novel is 17 year old Sascha Naimann.  Sascha was born in Moscow, but now lives in Berlin with her two younger siblings and, until recently, her mother.  She is precocious, independent, street-wise, and since her stepfather murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan.

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Book Club - November 18th

Bernhard Schlink, Der Vorleser / The Reader (1995)

 

 

In 1958, Michael Berg is a middle-class, 15-year-old living in West Germany. As he is recovering from a prolonged illness, he meets a 38-year-old working-class woman, named Hanna Schmitz. Hanna quickly seduces Michael, and the two characters begin a relationship that lasts for several months. Then one day Hanna simply vanishes, and Michael is left feeling guilty and sickened by the strange end of the relationship.

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