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review: The Homecoming (Hardcover)

Debauer Peter, the protagonist in Schlink's latest novel, embarks on the trail.

Will Debauer the beginning nor the author of a booklet novel, which he read as a teenager with his grandparents in Switzerland, find, he is looking for soon after by his believed to be dead father when he noticed that there was one and the same person acts.

Peter lives from childhood, turned back, because he did not really know his roots. His mother lets him in much in the dark, telling half-truths, to save him. Peters is the father of Swiss origin. His mother had once met during the Nazi period in Breslau.

elicited Like Peter, senior Debauer has assumed many identities in the course of his life. The Nazis, he was close. He wrote treatises, in which concepts such as chivalry wrong sophistry in its opposite, and have been misused for ideological purposes. Law had studied in Germany and the old Debauer booklet with novels kept his head above water before he went to the USA where it was under a different name as a law professor career. Wife and child he took care to leave a Swiss passport

Peter, himself a lawyer, wants his Vater kennen lernen und ihn stellen. Der rechtschaffene Sohn ist empört über das chamäleonartige Wesen seines Vaters und auch aufgebracht darüber, dass dieser als Professor es spitzfindig immer noch schafft, Begriffe unentdeckt zu verbiegen, indem er ihnen wortverdreherisch einen neuen , völlig fragwürdigen Inhalt zuordnet.

Worin liegt der Nutzen von Gerechtigkeit? Bei wieviel Kälte, Hunger, Druck, Angst ist der Lack der Zivilisation ab? Ab wann verraten sich die Menschen? Was ist das Böse? Muss man dem Bösen ins Auge schauen, um es in sich selbst und in anderen zu erkennen? Hat das Böse im vergangenen Jahrhundert aufgehört zu existieren oder lebt es fort solange es Menschen there? These are the questions with which Peter deals in search of the conceptual orientation of his father. While he finds the answers to these questions, the ever-restless seeker begins to calm down.

To really go home, you have a journey that can also be an intellectual process, have actually been completed. That's Barbara, Peters wise friend, he realized again and again. While Barbara helps him brighten his unexplained yesterday, and it succeeds Peter in this context, check out essential to ethical issues in thought, he allows himself to the woman he loves to return home fully, completely different than once Odysseus Penelope.