AUTHOR BERNHARD SCHLINK TO GIVE READING AT
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. ¡ Bernhard Schlink, the author of The Reader (Pantheon, 1997) and Flights of Love (Pantheon Books, 2001), will read from his recently published and unpublished fiction at Mount Holyoke College Monday, April 15, at 8 PM in Gamble Auditorium. Schlink will talk about the guilt and shame felt among many Germans for the crimes committed by their parents¯ or grandparents' generation during World War II. A discussion and book signing will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public, and the auditorium is wheelchair accessible.

The reading is one of several events planned for the author's two-day visit to the Five Colleges. He will also read (in English) at Smith College on Monday, April 15, at 4:30 PM in room 106 Seelye Hall, and at Amherst College on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 PM in Stirn Auditorium. Schlink will conduct a student seminar (in German) for Five-College students at both the undergraduate and graduate level on Tuesday, April 16, at 4 PM in Herter Hall 601 at the University of Massachusetts.

Bernhard Schlink is also the author of four best-selling German crime novels now being translated into English: The Gordian Knot, Self Deception, Self-Administered Justice, and Self Slaughter. He is a professor of law at the Humboldt University in Berlin at Yeshiva University in New York and a state Supreme Court judge in Germany.

The reading is sponsored by the German Studies departments at Amherst College, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke; the Department of Germanic Literatures and Languages at the University of Massachusetts; The Five-College Lecture Fund; the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College; the European Studies Program at Amherst College; The Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst College; the School of Social Science at Hampshire College; the Center for the Book and Law Program at Hampshire College; and The Odyssey Bookshop.