the reader in 995 and stephen daldry directed the movie in 2008 was highly acclaimed even garnering 2 oscar nominations including one for best picture the story of the reader is a great example of how literature can be such a powerful made of communication you think your ex is a creep imagine your 1st big love has a blot on our hands. lots of it. that's what happens in band had slinks novel the reader it's 1950 s. germany and 15 year old falls head over heels for an older woman a street car conductor named hannah hannah is fascinating and she's freaky she bathes gently and she also beats him. to to develop a ritual when they meet to make love she insists that he read to her. years later as a law student michel attends a trial where hanna is the defendant he learns that she was a guard at a concentration camp and that she watched as hundreds of women and children burned to death the reader is about post-war germany trying to come to terms with its nazi past. when i tried to understand it i had the feeling i was failing to condemn it as it must be can down when i condemned it as it must