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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375420916

ISBN-139780375420917

eBay Product ID (ePID)60674883

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleHomecoming

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Family Life, Literary

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorBernhard Schlink

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-016121

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsPraise forTHE READER: "A formally beautiful, disturbing, and finally morally devastating novel. From the first page,The Readerensnares both heart and mind." --Los Angeles Times "A masterly work... The reviewer's sole and privileged function is to say as loudly as he is able, 'Read this' and 'Read it again.'" --George Steiner

Dewey Decimal833/.914

SynopsisA 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.", 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., The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best sellerThe Reader, Homecomingis the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years. The search takes him across Europe, to the United States, and back: finding witnesses, falling in and out of love, chasing fragments of a story and a person who may or may not exist. Within a maze of reinvented identities, Peter pieces together a portrait of a man who uses words as one might use a change of clothing, as he assumes a new guise in any given situation simply to stay alive. The chase leads Peter to New York City, where he hopes to find the real person behind the disguises. Operating under an assumed identity of his own, Peter unravels the secrets surrounding Columbia University's celebrated political science professor and best-selling author John de Baur, who is known for his incendiary philosophy and the charismatic rapport he has with his students. Terrifying mind games challenge Peter's ability to bring to light the truth surrounding his family history while still holding on to the love of a woman who promises a new life, free of lies and deceit. Homecomingis a story of fathers and sons, men and women, war and peace. It reveals the humanity that survives the trauma of war and the ongoing possibility for redemption. From the Hardcover edition.

LC Classification NumberPT2680.L54H4513 2007