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Book Review of The Reader

The Reader
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Unusual and thought provoking. From the back cover "When he falls illon his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover. She enthralls him with her passion, but puzzles him with her odd silences. Then she inexplicably disappears." The subsequent meeting years later reveals " . . . a secret she considers more shameful than murder."