The Granddaughter A Novel

Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins

eBook - 2025

"Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen" —Booklist (starred review)"Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Grandaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel." —The Guardian"A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale." —Kirkus (starred review)From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller's attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Ger...many to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find... more