{"product_id":"olga-by-bernard-schlink","title":"'Olga' by Bernard Schlink","description":"\u003ch4\u003eOrphaned and raised by an unaffectionate grandmother in late nineteenth-century Prussia, Olga refuses the diminished life allotted to her.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe educates herself, becomes a teacher and falls in love with Herbert, the privileged son of a local landowner. But Herbert is possessed by the imperial dreams of his era: distant territories, heroic conquest and the imagined glory of disappearing beyond the known world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning two world wars and told through shifting perspectives, \u003cem\u003eOlga\u003c\/em\u003e is both an intimate history of one woman and a quiet reckoning with twentieth-century Germany. Schlink sets Olga’s endurance against Herbert’s restless appetite for greatness, tracing how national fantasies enter private lives and how history is shaped by those who remain behind. A restrained, cleverly layered novel about class, colonial ambition, memory and love sustained through absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English-language edition, first printing. Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. Export trade paperback, Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson, 2020. Good condition, with light creasing, rubbing and shelf wear to the cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45725040377939,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-22T133849.852.png?v=1782099546","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/olga-by-bernard-schlink","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}