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BERNHARD SCHLINK
The Reader
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY CAROL BROWN JANEWAY A PHOENIX PAPERBACK First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Part One
CHAPTER ONE
WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN, I GOT HEPAtitis. It started in the autumn and lasted until spring. As the old year darkened and turned colder, I got weaker and weaker. Things didn’t start to improve until the new year. January was warm, and my mother moved my bed out onto the balcony. I saw sky, sun, clouds, and heard
...led up to the first floor and the stairwell; they were wide at the bottom, narrower above, set between walls topped with iron banisters and curving outwards at street level. The front door was flanked by pillars, and from the corners of the architrave one lion looked up Bahnhofstrasse while another looked down. The entrance through which the woman had led me to the tap in the courtyard was at the side.
I had been aware of this building since I was a little boy. It dominated the whole row.
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