"The reader" from Bernhard SCHLINK

Summary :
"Bernhard Schlink's extraordinary novel
The Reader is a compelling meditation on the connections between Germany's past and its present, dramatised with extreme emotional intelligence as the story of a relationship between the narrator and an older woman.
It has won deserved praise accross Europe for the tact and power with which it handles its material, both erotic and philosophical."

Quotations :

* "There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

* "The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successufl and futile. What else is the history of law ?"

* "And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal."

"What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews ?"