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  FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 1998

  Copyright © 1995 by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich

  Translation copyright © 1997 by Carol Brown Janeway

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, Limited, Toronto.

  Originally published in Switzerland as Der Vorleser by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, in 1995. First published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1997.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:

  Schlink, Bernhard.

  [Vorleser. English]

  The reader / Bernhard Schlink; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

  p. cm.

  I. Janeway, Carol Brown. II. Title.

  PT2680.L54V6713 1997

  833'.914—dc21 97-1511

  CIP

  Random House Web address: www.randomhouse.com

  eISBN: 978-0-375-72697-2

  V3.0