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BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Reader, which became an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, and The Woman on the Stairs. His latest novel, Olga, was a no.1 international bestseller. He lives in Berlin and New York.<i>Summer Lies</i> is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life ... Admirers of <i>The Reader</i> will not be dissappointed
Financial Times
Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in <i>Summer Lies</i> has heft, solidty
Scotsman
With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like <i>The Reader</i>, by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him
International Herald Tribune
<i>The Reader</i> is a fine novel ... A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding
- Ruth Rendall on The Reader,
Crammed with incident and analysis, and yet Schlink finds room for virtuoso passages of evocation ... compelling
London Review of Books on The Reader
Extraordinary depth and worldwide critical acclaim
Guardian on The Weekend
A succinct fascinating insight into Germany's ongoing examination of its troubled past
Daily Express on The Reader
Told with an elegant realism.
SUNDAY HERALD
As in his previous books - most notably, <i>The Reader</i> (1995) - Schlink meditates on guilt and conscience. But the focus of his reflections has shifted from Germany's Nazi past to his characters' private lives. Love and family are the things at stake here, and each story turns on the pursuit and unmasking of a deception... This is the book's notion of summer: a season as precarious and fleeting as the moments of love around which Bernhard Schlink's characters build edifices of deceit
- Jane Yager, TLS