But I do not know how they do that, and I'm really uninterested in the epistemology of my writing." I'm sure the things I think about and worry about in other contexts play into the stories I write. I did a great deal of research into it, but I never had an objective beyond telling that story. Schlink says that writing about illiteracy "was there when I started to think about the book. Michael, by now a law student observing the trial, realises that Hanna is a secret illiterate, a fact that has profoundly affected her actions in the past as well as fatally undermining her defence in court. The Reader opens in post-war Germany when a 15-year-old boy, Michael, embarks on an affair with a 36-year-old woman, Hanna, who disappears, then years later turns up in the dock as a former concentration camp guard accused of the mass murder of Jewish women locked in a burning church.
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