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ASIN: 0307454894
ID #109768
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: A Non-Existent User
Review Rated: E
Amazon's Price: $ 6.19
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Summary of this Book...
"The Reader" is the story of 15-year-old Michael Berg and his sexual relationship with an older woman named Hanna. The story is brilliantly told through fluid prose; with an erotic mysteriousness that leaves the reader feeling engaged as well as greatly disturbed.

Michael is portrayed as a naive boy who, not understanding what love really is, places his heart in the hands of Hanna; a woman who is obviously marred by a certain coldness in which she uses Michael to thaw. The story becomes even more complex later, when Michael is in law school and finds Hanna on trial; accused of commiting atrocities during the war.
I especially liked...
The symbolism in this story. The eroticism represented the tug between feeling the shame or guilt from a moral perspective and the great desire to believe its good; without ever knowing all the "whys".
The author of this Book...
Excellent. This is a must-read.
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