Self's Punishment

Self's Punishment

by Prof Bernhard Schlink (Author), Walter Popp (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Export/Airport/Ireland ed
Publisher: W&N
Published: 23 Sep 2004

ISBN 10: 0297849093
ISBN 13: 9780297849094
Book Overview: The bestselling crime novel from the author of The Reader

Author Bio
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.