Months later, after urging from his mother, Michael returns to the woman’s apartment in order to thank her, but as the woman is preparing to walk him out, he finds himself unable to stop watching her get dressed. One of the building’s tenants, 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz rescues him, cleaning him up and bringing him back home, where his doctor diagnoses him with hepatitis. In Part 1, a 15-year-old Michael is on his way home when he becomes violently ill by the side of a building. It was the first German book to reach the number one position in the New York Times bestseller list.The narrator, Michael Berg, tells the story of his teenage affair with a former Nazi prison guard and its aftermath. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and the United States and was translated into 39 languages. His career as a writer began with several detective novels with a main character named Selb-a play on the German word for "self." In 1995 he published The Reader ( Der Vorleser), a partly autobiographical novel. He became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and has been a professor of public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany since January 2006. Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer.
It was the first German book to reach the number one position in the New York Times bestseller list.
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