Thank you Alainna Hadjigeorgiou for the review copy of Olga by Bernhard Schlink. Bernhard Schlink is master storyteller and if like me you loved and have not forgotten The Reader then you must not miss Olga. Timeframes fly by in a blink of an eye but say and detail so much of the time.
So what does Ferdinand find? This you will have to find out for yourself.Ībsolutely adored Olga and her story and devotion to a man with a wanderlust. But the story does not end here and we move forward a few years and it is what Ferdinand finds that confirms her devotion to the love she lost many years before a love that was doomed. This becomes a lasting friendship and Ferdinand is surprised that on her death she leaves him something. But now she works for a family and raises their son Ferdinand. By now Germany is growing in its own self confidence and rising power across not just Germany but also across Africa.īy the end of World War II, Olga is in West Germany and is now deaf. Herbert has another side to him and he wants to be the best and is a bit of an adventurer and travels the world and instilling his own arrogance but it is on an arctic expedition that he subsequently disappears in 1913. His parents vehemently are against their relationship but Olga wants to be with Herbert.
The two leading characters could not be from two different backgrounds. Soon Olga would meet and fall in love with the aristocratic Herbert. Olga has dreams of becoming a teacher and attends college to train. Olga was brought up by her grandmother in Pomerania but it is a harsh upbringing and it is a story that that weaves through two World Wars. I was so taken by the story of Olga who was an Orphan and her life in a Prussian village at the turn of the 20th century.īernhard Schlink remains one of Germany’s most respected authors and the poignant story of Olga is a compelling novel of hopes, love and dreams. So I was delighted to have received a copy of Olga (W&N) in the post last month. I was so moved by The Reader by Bernhard Schlink when I read it some years ago and still remains with me to this day. This is the story of that love, of Olga’s devotion to a restless man – told in thought, letters and in a fateful moment of great rebellion. Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west. When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era’s dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best. Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century.
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