The Woman on the Stairs
Weidenfeld & Nicolson $29.99 pb, 227 pp, 9781474604994
Fiction
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
by Miriam Cosic •
Certain themes suffuse Bernhard Schlink’s fiction: memory, mystery, secrets, guilt, shame. Schlink mixes them in various permutations and intensities, but they are ever present in novels that have vaulting philosophical ambition beneath their simple narratives.
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