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Title: A detective story with deeper implications
Review: Schlink creates an interesting character and story, and at the same time interweaves the themes of working through the meaning of the Nazi past in a bourgeois democratic Germany. His characterization -- especially of his detecttive, a former Nazi prosecutor -- is rich, and the German not too difficult for one such as I, who learned German from Pimsleur CDs relatively late in life.
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