Bernhard Schlink
Das Wochenende: Roman.
Zurich: Diogenes Verlag, 2008. 9783257066333 224 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", is bound in red cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine compartment. Book and dust jacket are like new.
""After twenty years in prison, he has been surprisingly pardoned. Christiane, his sister, wants to celebrate his first weekend in freedom with a dozen old friends, in a run-down villa in the country, without reporters and cameras.
The journalist Henner, the teacher Ilse, the businessman Ulrich with his wife and daughter, Karin, bishop of a small regional church, the lawyer Andreas - they all sympathized with the revolution in some way at the time. Today they have their place in bourgeois life.
They come out of loyalty, out of nostalgia, out of curiosity. They want to advise and help and at the same time keep their distance. But they cannot escape the confrontation with their own biography, their life dreams and life lies. The past comes alive.
The balance is drawn with the atmospheric intensity of a chamber play."