Audiobook The Reader by Bernhard Schlink in the ListenBook app
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Book description
The first time Michael saw Hanna, she was helping him up after collapsing on the schoolyard path. Fifteen years old, dizzy with fever, he barely registered her hands-strong, warm, a little rough-lifting him. Then came the quiet afternoons in her apartment, the scent of soap and cigarettes, the way her laughter felt like sunlight through a window. She was older, older than his mother, and the world narrowed to the heat of her skin and the sound of her breathing in the dark. He loved her, simple and fierce as a heartbeat.
Then, silence. She vanished without a word, leaving only a ghost of her presence in the empty apartment. Years later, Michael, now a law student, walks into a courtroom. There she is: Hanna Schmitz, standing trial for crimes that make his blood turn to ice. She's accused of hiding Jewish prisoners in a burning building during the war. The evidence is damning. The prosecution paints her as a monster.
But Michael watches her. He sees the way she clutches her hands, the way she won't look at him, even though he's there. When the judge asks why she didn't speak up, why she let the prisoners burn, she simply says, "I couldn't read." It's not an excuse. It's a door slamming shut. And in that moment, Michael realizes: her silence isn't about guilt. It's about shame. A shame so deep, so terrifying, that it outweighs the horror of what she did.
Listening to this on audiobook is like sitting in the courtroom yourself, feeling the weight of every unspoken word. The narrator's voice doesn't shout the moral; it lets the quiet moments speak-the pause before Hanna's confession, the way Michael's voice cracks when he finally understands. You hear the rustle of the trial documents, the muffled sob from the gallery, the echo of Hanna's whispered "I couldn't read" in the empty apartment where they first met. The shame isn't in the crime; it's in the secret she carried, a secret she thought was worse than murder. And that's what lingers long after the final chapter: the terrible, beautiful weight of a life lived in the shadow of something you couldn't face. It's not just a story about the past. It's about how we carry our own unspoken things, day after day, in the quiet spaces between words.
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Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
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