{"id":4023,"date":"2025-11-21T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:32:27","slug":"th-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4023","title":{"rendered":"The Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Bernhard Schlink, book published 1999, translation by Carol Brown Janeway, Audiobook released 2008, narrated by Campbell Scott, Random House Audio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book started out with some steamy passages in which a fifteen-year-old boy has an affair with an older woman who is working as a streetcar conductor in postwar Germany. He becomes totally enthralled with her, but she is secretive about her past. Then one day she disappears with no explanation.  Much later, as a graduate law student, he encounters her at her war crimes trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is short and extremely well written. At the beginning of the book, I had no idea where it was going, but it addresses some profound moral questions regarding personal responsibility and shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The narration by Campbell Scott is excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bernhard Schlink, book published 1999, translation by Carol Brown Janeway, Audiobook released 2008, narrated by Campbell Scott, Random House Audio The book started out with some steamy passages in which a fifteen-year-old boy has an affair with an older <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4023\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}