Discuss this compelling story of love and secrets, crimes and compassion
Highlights
- Take this English book club to maintain your English fluency & accuracy
- 5 hours of live classes to help you develop phrasing & expressing your ideas
- Read this gripping story and discuss moral complexities, dilemmas and guilt
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Refresh your English in this 5 week English book club course using Bernhard Schlink's highly rated international best-seller, The Reader. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
This is a spell-binding story of a romance set against the difficult background of postwar Germany. It is both a romance while on another level it is an examination of the complexities of dealing with the aftermath of World War II.
The novel follows the relationship of Michael Berg, a fifteen-year-old boy when they first meet, and Hanna, an older woman. Their secret love affair casts a long shadow over his life. For Hanna is not all she seems, and her past working for the Nazis, leads to profound and unsettling questions.
This short book, well written in clean, simple but descriptive prose, is very thought-provoking. It explores the guilt felt by the younger generation for the crimes of their parents' generation, even though most ordinary Germans were powerless to prevent the atrocities.
Geoff says:
"This is a beautifully written book. It is written in straightforward language but deals with complex issues while telling a gripping story. Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her portrayal of Hanna in the 2008 film.”
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| Age | 18+ |
| Online class size | Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion |
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