The Reader, Bernhard Schlink made into films John Irving “We don’t always

John Irving “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another

So that truth and fact

including race

doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity

David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink made into films John Irving “We don’t alwaysFor 15 year old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long, they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all that she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realise that the person on the dock is Hanna. The woman he has loved is a