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Unlike other Holocaust accounts, Schlink focuses on how the next generation of German youth struggle with their parents'/elders role during the Holocaust. Even if the parents did not play an active role in the systematic murder of six million Jews, the children blame their parents for remaining silent. It is in this context that Michael Berg falls in love with a woman twenty years his senior. Their passion is intense, until one day she disappears. It is only years later when he first sees her again, and learns that Hanna is guilty of horrendous crimes against Jewish women. Schlink's ability to capture Michael's morally complex love, and Hanna's mysterious life makes this story difficult to put down.