![]() This particular passage in the book made me smile □ He has written one more book after this, ‘ Olga‘. This book had all this, it was vintage Schlink. Perfect reading if you don’t want to tax your brain too much, but want to relax and enjoy the story, and read the occasional beautiful paragraph. Occasionally there is a beautiful passage. There is no superfluous sentence, no wasted word. His prose is spare, his sentences are short. Because his stories are consistently good. Now I realize that he was probably having a bad day when he wrote ‘The Weekend’. Then I read his book ‘ The Weekend‘ and hated it and I stopped reading Bernhard Schlink. I loved his books, ‘ The Reader‘ and ‘ Homecoming‘, and some of the stories I read in ‘ Flights of Love‘. I had forgotten how much I liked Bernhard Schlink till I read this book. What happens when, after many years, Sherlock Holmes stumbles upon a clue and goes on a quest for Irene Adler? What if Sherlock Holmes is not a detective but a lawyer? What if it is not Bohemia of the 19th century but the Germany of the contemporary era? And what if Irene Adler is, well Irene Adler? □ Well, this is the story we get. It is a beautiful love letter to Irene Adler. ‘ The Woman on the Stairs‘ is a beautiful homage to Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler and ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’. ![]() The next passage is my own opinion, but I think it is also spoiler-ish. I don’t want to tell you anything more on the plot, but I can’t resist saying this. What happens after that, when our lawyer goes on a quest for a secret from his past and tries to find the mysterious woman in the painting forms the rest of the story. Then he hires a detective to find that out. Our lawyer tries to find out who owns the painting, but hits a dead end. We discover that there are mysterious past events that connect him to the painting and the people related to it. He is surprised when he sees a painting there called ‘The Woman on the Stairs’. During a break from work, he goes to the art gallery. The narrator of the story is a German lawyer. I haven’t read a book by him in a while and so I thought I’ll read this now for German Literature Month hosted by Caroline from Beauty is a Sleeping Cat and Lizzy from Lizzy’s Literary Life. I stumbled upon Bernhard Schlink’s ‘ The Woman on the Stairs‘ recently.
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