[ALOUD] at Central Library
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:00 PM
BERNARD SCHLINK
CANCELLED--Homecoming: A Novel
 
In conversation with Michael Henry Heim, translator and professor of comparative literature, UCLA
CANCELLED!!

The author of the international best-seller The Reader, discusses his new novel—set within a maze of reinvented identities that reveal the humanity that survives the trauma of war. Co-presented with Goethe Institute, Los Angeles.

Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Reader, as well as four prize-winning crime novels--The Gordian Knot, Self's Fraud, Self'sPunishment, and Self Slaughter--that are currently being translated into English. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.

Michael Henry Heim has taught in the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at UCLA for thirty-five years and translates from a number of languages, including Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, German, and French. In addition to the new novel by Bernhard Schlink, Homecoming, his translations include the Modern Library edition of Chekhov's plays and a collection of Chekhov's letters, contemporary Russian, Hungarian, and Croatian novelists, three novels and a play by Milan Kundera, two novels and a collection of stories by Bohmil Hrabal, two novels by Danilo Kis, a children's novel by Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Günter's Grass's My Century and Peeling the Onion: A Memoir.