

leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart." -The New York Times Book Review "Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex.

What Schlink does best, what makes this novel most memorable, are the small moments of highly charged eroticism." -Francine Prose, Elle, "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." -Los Angeles Times "Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful.

Schlink tells his story with marvelous directness and simplicity." - The New York Times "Haunting. leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart." - The New York Times Book Review "Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." - Los Angeles Times "Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful.
