Homecoming
By Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £14.99, 272 pages
FT bookshop price: £11.99

Homecoming is the long-awaited follow-up to Bernhard Schlink’s massively successful novel The Reader (1997). Like his previous work, it is concerned with the ways in which modern Germans make sense of their country’s turbulent past, and suggests how understanding that past can be recovered through the study of commonly overlooked texts and documents.