Homecoming

(Paperback)

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As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who believes him to be dead.

But the novel is incomplete and Peter becomes obsessed by the question of what happened when the soldier and his wife met again.

Years later, the adult Peter remembers the novel and embarks on a search for the missing pages that soon becomes a mysterious search for his own father, a German soldier whom he always believed was killed in the war.

Reviews

An even deeper mystery unravels in this compelling tale that addresses Germany's troubled history, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the challenges facing a country that's still very much divided * SHE *
Schlink's book of longing remains both stylish and intelligent * OBSERVER *
a book of disarming honesty and insight * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
Schlink wrestles with how to deal with the sins of fathers in this absorbing novel. * WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY *

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 bestselling novel THE READER as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.