Self’s Punishment
Self’s Punishment by Bernhard Schlink, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on April 12, 2005, is a 256-page work in English that delves into the life of Gerhard Self, a former Nazi prosecutor turned private investigator. The narrative explores his internal struggle with his past complicity in evil as he embarks on a new case, hired by a childhood friend to track down a hacker who has breached a chemical plant’s computer system. This investigation quickly escalates into a murder case, intertwining with the darker aspects of Germany’s history.
Readers will find a psychologically complex and atmospheric moral thriller that examines the intersection of personal guilt and corporate secrets. As Self navigates the investigation, he confronts the haunting remnants of the past, revealing the hidden connections between the present and historical atrocities. The book presents a shrewd, self-mocking protagonist who grapples with the implications of his actions in a society still grappling with its own legacy.
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As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.
Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who’s invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant. But his investigation leads to murder, and from there to the charnel house of Germany’s past, where the secrets of powerful corporations lie among the bones of numberless dead. What ensues is a taut, psychologically complex, and densely atmospheric moral thriller featuring a shrewd, self-mocking protagonist.
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