Olga - Bernhard Schlink

Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. When Olga falls in love with her neighbour, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures. Unfolding across decadesfrom the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuryand across continentsfrom Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-westOlga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a womans devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shinesrevealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable.

 Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlinks magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world.

ISBN: 9781474611145

Pages: 283

Trade paperback

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020

Edition: 01 (English)

Good condition

B16