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The quiet, level-headed, slightly pedantic delicatessen owner Johannes Lemann and the eternally vagabond, quick-tempered Bert Michilinski couldn't be more different. But they have more in common than they admit: They both dislike themselves and their lives. One has built a wall around himself, the other is constantly running away from himself.
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Original Language
DE

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The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.