Olga bernhard schlink

Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Ībandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century.