A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel. --Los Angeles Times
Moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful. . . . [The Reader] leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart. --The New York Times Book Review
Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex. . . . Mr. Schlink tells his story with marvelous directness and simplicity. --The New York Times
Haunting. . . . What Schlink does best, what makes this novel most memorable, are the small moments of highly charged eroticism. --Francine Prose, Elle
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