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For 15yearold Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to farmore than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before longthey embar... » 

For 15yearold Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to farmore than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before longthey embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael botheuphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later as a lawstudent observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that theperson in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much abouther behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly andterribly it does Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crimeshe is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret. A tender horrifyingnovel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with infiction. A thriller a love story and a deeply moving examination of a Germanconscience INDEPENDENT SATURDAY MAGAZINE «