The Granddaughter

A complex, poignant narrative that plays out in communist East Berlin in the 1960s and the neo-Nazi scene of the present day * Financial Times *Schlink, author of The Reader, serves up another tale of buried secrets in this decades spanning saga of a German bookseller confronted with his late wife’s hushed-up heartache. When he learns that she was already pregnant when they met in 1960s Berlin - she from the east, he from the west - the discovery prompts a quest for the unknown child, as intimate marital drama morphs into the story of a divided nation. * Mail on Sunday *Highly topical in its focus on neo-Nazis in presentday Germany and the lingering divisions between East and West 34 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall … The Granddaughter asks many important questions, including one that feels very pertinent right now with the rise of far-right groups: “Was society failing to provide young people with a positive experience of community?” – Johanna Thomas Corr * Sunday Times *Wonderfully readable … Schlink remains a perceptive chronicler of modern Germany * Guardian *

BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Reader, which became an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, and The Woman on the Stairs. His latest novel, Olga, was a no.1 international bestseller. He lives in Berlin and New York.