The Woman on the Stairs ~ Hardback ~ Bernhard Schlink

A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. A brilliant and naive young lawyer s life is changed forever when a painter and his subject a breathtakingly beautiful woman appear at his office in Frankfurt. The woman s husband is deliberately marring the painting of his wife he commissioned the artist to make. Now the woman and the artist want the painting back. Simple enough or so it seems before the lawyer becomes enmeshed in the lives of this toxic trio. Love, theft, and deceit unfold in quick succession when the woman, and the painting, suddenly go missing. It will take a strange turn of fate and a natural disaster to reunite the lawyer, the husband, and the artist with the woman they all love, hiding out in Australia and when they find her they will be forced to reckon with the lies and betrayals of their shared past. This is an intricately crafted, poignant, and beguiling novel it is Bernhard Schlink writing at his peak."Author BiographyBernhard Schlinkis the author of the internationally best-selling novelThe Reader.He is a former judge and teaches public law and legal philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City." The Woman on the Stairs Release Date Australia: March 14th, 2017