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Omissions And Admissions

Philip Hensher H oW To T ALK A BoUT B ooKS Y oU H AVEN ’ T R EAD by Pierre Bayard, translated by Geoffrey Mehlman Granta, £12, pp. 176, ISBN 9781862079861 ✆ £9.59 (plus £2.45......

An Abstract Debate

Carole Angier HOMECOMING by Bernhard Schlink Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 272, ISBN 9780375420917 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 B ernhard Schlink’s The Reader was one of......