The Writer: One on One with Bernhard Schlink

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The Writer: One on One with Bernhard Schlink

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

Bernhard Schlink, international bestselling author of The Reader and Guilt About the Past makes his Writers Festival debut with his latest novel, The Weekend. Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. 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. Passions are pitted against pragmatism, ideas against actions, and hopes against heartbreaking realities.

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Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink is a writer and a professor of public law and legal philosophy; for many years he was also a judge at a German constitutional law court. He was born in 1944, grew up in Heidelberg, lived in Germany, France, and USA, has a son and two granddaughters and teaches now at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He began publishing crime novels in 1987 and other fiction in 1995. His first fiction to appear in English was his novel The Reader, 1997; since then his collection of stories Flights of Love, the novels Homecoming and The Weekend and his trilogy about the private detective Gerhard Self, Self's Punishment, Self's Betrayal, and Self's Murder, have come out. His essays Guilt about the Past deal with Germany's recent past, collective and individual guilt, forgiving and forgetting, law and morality, his scholarly work focusses on fundamental rights, the role of the police, and the meaning of justice. He has just published another collection of stories in German. The Weekend is his latest book.