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THE READER
by Bernard Schlink
A story of love and secrets, crime and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany, The Reader is a deeply moving novel about a young boy’s erotic awakening. When he falls ill on 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—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees Hanna, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime.
A New York Times Notable Book
Fiction/Literature/0-679-78130-7
SILK
by Alessandro Baricco
This startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novel tells a story of adventure, sexual enthrallment, and love so powerful that it unhinges a man’s life. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms whose travels carry him to Japan in 1861. There, in the court of an enigmatic nobleman, Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to France, but in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.
Fiction/Literature/0-375-70382-9
WOLF SOLENT
by John Cowper Powys
This rapturous novel of eros and ideas remains unrivaled in its risky balance of mysticism and comedy, ecstatic contemplation of nature and unblinking observation of human folly and desire. Forsaking London for a village in Dorsetshire, Wolf Solent discovers a world of pagan splendor riddled by ancient scandals and resentments. This poetic young man meets two women—the sensuous beauty Gerda and the ethereal gamine Christie—who will become the sharers of his body and soul.
Fiction/Literature/0-375-70307-1
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