{"product_id":"the-granddaughter-9780063295230","title":"The Granddaughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read \u003cem\u003eThe Granddaughter\u003c\/em\u003e now\" --\u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The great novel of German reunification\" --\u003cem\u003eLe Figaro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, a striking exploration of the wounds of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller's attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany 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 her lost child in the east.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different-- an ideological gulf of mistrust yawns between them-- but he is determined to accept her as his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty-five years after \u003cem\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past's role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the German by Charlotte Collins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the German by Charlotte Collins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harpervia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063295230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bernhard Schlink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792604754101,"sku":"9780063295230","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_75ec8198-27c2-4888-81e4-c85b3eeffdfc.jpg?v=1731426775","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-granddaughter-9780063295230","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}