The phenomenal success of the novel "The Reader" by the modern German writer Bernhard Schlink (1995) is comparable only to the popularity of Patrick Suskind's novel "The Perfumer" published twenty years earlier. "The Reader" has been translated into thirty-nine languages, the book has become a worldwide bestseller and has collected a whole bunch of prestigious literary awards in Europe and America. A sudden romance broke out between a fifteen-year-old teenager, a boy from a professor's family, and a mature woman, just as suddenly ended when she disappeared from the city without warning. Eight years later, he, now a graduate student at the Faculty of Law, saw her again — among the former guards of the women's concentration camp at the trial of Nazi criminals. But this is not the only secret that has been revealed to the hero of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader…