{"product_id":"the-granddaughter-1","title":"The Granddaughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Granddaughter\u003c\/i\u003e] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, a striking work of historical fiction exploring the past, told through the story of a German bookseller's attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar uncovers a devastating family secret--the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different--a profound ideological divide and gulf of mistrust yawns between them--but he is determined to accept her as his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty-five years after \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping German literary fiction novel that powerfully probes the past's role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the German by Charlotte Collins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpervia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947271127271,"sku":"9780063295230","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_236dbb1d-70d6-47ed-92a7-d94ebc616930.jpg?v=1775485596","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-granddaughter-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}