Product Description: El protagonista y narrador de esta novela contempla fascinado un cuadro que representa a una mujer desnuda bajando una escalera. La fascinacion tiene un doble origen: la obra llevaba decadas desaparecida y ademas formo parte de su vida...read more

Product Description: Un adolescente conoce a una mujer madura con la que inicia una relacion amorosa. Antes de acostarse juntos, ella siempre le pide que le lea fragmentos de Goethe, Schiller y otros, hasta que un dia ella desaparece. Siete anos despues, el joven, que estudia derecho, acude al juicio de cinco mujeres acusadas de crimenes nazis y descubre que una de ellas es su antigua amante...read more

Product Description: From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships...read more

Product Description: Ir descubriendo cuidadosamente las mentiras con las que vivimos es el nucleo central de estos hermosos relatos melancolicos y sin concesiones: una mujer que comprende que lo que ha dado sentido a su vida ya no funciona, se pone a buscar y encuentra al hombre del que se enamoro cuando era una estudiante; un hijo quiere saber quien es su padre y emprende un viaje con el; un hombre que padece una enfermedad incurable organiza un veraneo con su familia; un pasajero de un vuelo oye la confesion vital de su vecino de asiento, o no son mas que puras patranas? Por que intenta un hombre joven, padre de una nina, alejar a su exitosa mujer del mundo? Que lleva a un amante a mentir una y otra vez a su amada y a perderla y perderse el mismo con sus mentiras? / The central nucleus of these beautiful stories is the careful discovery of the lies which we live with...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

By the author of the critically acclaimed and international bestselling The Reader, Homecoming is a mesmerising tale of discovery, of the search for identity and of the need for understanding and forgiveness.

Losing his father during World War II, Peter Debauer grows up with his mother and few memories of his father, until, as an adult, he embarks on a quest in search of his missing father, a man who continuously reinvents himself to stay alive.

The second novel in the Gerhard Self detective series, from the author of The Reader.

At the request of a childhood friend, an aging Gerhard Self, a former Nazi prosecutor turned private detective, searches for a mischievous hacker who has invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant, but his investigation turns deadly as it leads him into a confrontation with the dark secrets of Germany's past. Original. 20,000 first printing.

The internationally acclaimed author of The Reader explores the mysteries of the human heart and complex emotional aspects of love in a new collection of short fiction about love, an anthology that includes such works as 'Girl with Lizard,' 'A Little Fling,' and 'The Circumcision.' Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world...read more

'The best novel I read in 1996... an unforgettable tale about love, horror and mercy in Germany before and after 1945' -INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'An electrifying story, told with both passion and restraint... a must' - TAGESSPIEGEL 'Superb' - LE MONDE A schoolboy in post-war Germany, Michael collapses one day in the street and is helped home by a woman in her thirties. He is fascinated by this older woman, and he and Hanna begin a secretive affair. Gradually, he begins to be frustrated by their relationship, but then is shocked when Hanna simply disappears. Some years later, as a law student, Michael is in court to follow a case. To his amazement he recognizes Hanna. The object of his adolescent passion is a criminal. Suddenly, Michael understands that her behaviour, both now and in the past, conceals a deeply buried secret.