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Olga : a Novel by Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins, Bernhard Schlink is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening Standard A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age. 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 neighbor, 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 decades—from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century—and

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Author

Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins, Bernhard Schlink

Publisher

HarperVia

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780063112926

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (294 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14