The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko

the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger-than-life appetite can bear

who has been in prison all this time

he can do nothing but write letters to his family

Translator: Geoffrey Trousselot

and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth-century France whose work is associated with the early Symbolists

The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink the young novelist Aoyama ChizukoMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her