Self's Punishment by Bernhard Schlink
Gerhard Self is a lawyer turned private investigator who's brought in to find out the person behind a series of computer frauds at Rhineland Chemical Works. He is of an age where computers are still something of a mystery, but as the threat of a major chlorine leak increases Self must employ all his skill to find the perpetrator before a catastrophe occurs. Beneath this plot Schlink works through the meaning of the Nazi past in a bourgeois democratic Germany. As a former Nazi prosecutor Gerhard Self is a wonderful literary character - a man struggling to find his place in the modern world, whose values are constantly challenged as he tries to make sense of the hand life has dealt him. SELF PUNISHMENT is a detective story with real depth.
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297849094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297849093 |
| Title | Self's Punishment |
| Author | Bernhard Schlink |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2004-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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