Gorgeous writing assembled into an interesting structure, decadent in detail but never laborious to read. I don’t think I’ve described many books like that but it’s exactly how I feel about this story. This is the story of that love, of Olga’s devotion to a restless man – told in thought, letters and in a fateful moment of great rebellion. Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west. When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era’s dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best. Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. The life of one woman – Olga – from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.Ī novel of love, passion, and history, from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. Olga… Translated by Charlotte Collins About the Book:
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