Summer Lies - Tapa dura

Summer Lies is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life ... Admirers of The Reader will not be dissappointed (Financial Times)

Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in Summer Lies has heft, solidty (Scotsman)

With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like The Reader, by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him (International Herald Tribune)

The Reader is a fine novel ... A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding (Ruth Rendall on The Reader)

Crammed with incident and analysis, and yet Schlink finds room for virtuoso passages of evocation ... compelling (London Review of Books on The Reader)

Extraordinary depth and worldwide critical acclaim (Guardian on The Weekend)

A succinct fascinating insight into Germany's ongoing examination of its troubled past (Daily Express on The Reader)

With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like 'The Reader', by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him... Each story in 'Summer Lies' has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE)

Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in Summer Lies has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures (THE SCOTSMAN)

Summer Lies is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life... Admirers of The Reader will not be disappointed (FINANCIAL TIMES)