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Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency whose previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to be going perfectly: Georg falls in love with Bulnakov's attractive secretary, Francoise and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans. She tells Georg that Bulnakov has threatened to harm her brother, who lives in Poland, if she refuses to do his bidding. Georg quickly realises that he is stuck between the CIA and the KGB and further out of his depth than he can begin to comprehend. But which side was he working for?

Un dos actuais escritores alemáns de maior prestixio, escribe unha novela de prosa intensa, unha investigación subxugante en busca da verdade. Os avós de Peter Debauer traballan como correctores para unha coleccion de literatura popular. Decote, o rapaz debuxa e fai os deberes no dorso dos folios corrixidos e un dia da en ler unha das historias. Intrigado, descobre na narracion incompleta dun prisioneiro de guerra aleman retido en Siberia detalles que se relacionan estrañamente coa sua propia vida... Bernhard Schlink (Bielefeld, 1944), un dos actuais escritores alemans de maior prestixio, escribe unha novela de prosa axustada e intensa, unha investigacion subxugante en busca da verdade e en contra do silencio.

Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix. Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective's desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.

A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of the war. Now an adult, Peter embarks on a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history, and the possibility of finding his missing father.

Les grands-parents du jeune Peter Debauer travaillent comme relecteurs pour une collection de littérature populaire. Souvent, Peter dessine ou fait ses devoirs au dos de jeux d'épreuves corrigées. Un jour, il se met à lire un de ces feuilletons malgré l'interdiction grand-parentale. Intrigué, il découvre dans le récit pourtant incomplet d'un prisonnier de guerre détenu en Sibérie des détails qui se rattachent étrangement à sa propre vie. Une longue quête commence alors pour lui, et sa volonté de découvrir la fin de l'histoire l'entraînera dans une odyssée à travers l'Histoire allemande et le passé de sa propre famille.

For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out. The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.

A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of the war. Now an adult, Peter embarks on a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history, and the possibility of finding his missing father.

When Gerhard Self happens upon one of the most intriguing cases of his career, he can't resist. From the start, the job is an unusual one: Herr Welker, partial owner of the German bank Weller and Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but he has one problema silent partner, whose name does not appear anywhere in the bank's records. Welker wants Self to track this silent partner down. Shortly after he takes the job, Self is accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of money and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, but more determined than ever, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germanyshortly after the fall of communismbattling Nazi youth, and closing in on a money laundering ring with connections to the Russian mafia.

Gerhard Self, the Sweet-Afton smoking, sambuca-swilling, most unlikely of PIs is back in a new tale of deception and intrigue, set against the backdrop of post-reunification Germany. After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to delve into the institution's history, apparently in the name of a book to commemorate the bank's foundation. But his seemingly anodyne brief - to discover the identity of a sleeping partner from several decades before - throws up far more questions than answers. As it becomes clear that the sleeping partner is in no way the most mysterious aspect of the bank's history, Self begins to suspect his mission may have been but a ruse to lure him into the shady world of the bank's enigmatic masters - a certain Herr Welker and his steely Russian foster brother Samarin. Trying in vain to extricate himself and his increasingly shaky heart from the web of deceit - and to work out who really is the baddie of the piece - Self is thrown headlong into a tale of money-laundering, murder and mafiosi. But who is blackmailing whom? Did Welker's wife really die in a tragic accident? And why is a washed-up old Stasi man pretending to be Self's long-lost son? Join Gerhard, the irascible armchair philosopher, on his most danegrous and far-reaching mission to date.

Após mais de vinte anos de afastamento, um grupo de velhos amigos e amantes reúne-se durante um fim-de-semana. Numa casa de campo isolada desenterram memórias e comentam os diferentes rumos que as suas vidas tomaram. Mas esta não é uma simples reunião de amigos, nem as suas conversas sobre os velhos tempos constituem as típicas reminiscências de juventude. A verdade é que se juntaram para celebrar a libertação de um dos membros do grupo: após vinte e três anos de prisão, Jörg, condenado por terrorismo e homicídio, acaba de ser libertado. No passado, este amigos partilhavam ideais revolucionários. Agora, todos eles asseguraram o seu lugar na sociedade: Henner é jornalista, Ulrich é um homem de negócios, Karin é pastora de uma pequena igreja e Ilse professora. Para trás parecem ter definitivamente ficado os dias de luta e idealismo…

Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. The previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to be going perfectly: Georg falls in love with Bulnakov's attractive secretary, Francoise, and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans. She tells Georg that Bulnakov has threatened to harm her brother, who lives in Poland, if she refuses to do his bidding. When Georg confronts Bulnakov Francoise disappears, and mysterious elements within the village try to hound him out. All he has left of Francoise is a picture she gave him of a church, which she told him was in Warsaw. But when a friend tells him the church is actually in New York, Georg flies to America in a desperate bid to track down Francoise, and unravel the web of deceit. Tailed from his arrival, Georg quickly realises that he is stuck between the CIA and the KGB, and further out of his depth than he can begin to comprehend. But which side was he working for? Who is the mysterious Mr Bulkanoff? And did he ever know the real Francoise?

À quinze ans, Michaël fait par hasard la connaissance, en rentrant du lycée, d’une femme de trente-cinq ans dont il devient l’amant. Pendant six mois, il la rejoint chez elle tous les jours, et l’un

L’est de l’empire allemand à la fin du XIXe siècle. Olga est orpheline et vit chez sa grand-mère, dans un village coupé de toute modernité. Herbert est le fils d’un riche industriel et habite la mais

A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of the war. Now an adult, Peter embarks on a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history, and the possibility of finding his missing father.

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems.Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal.Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.