{"product_id":"selfs-punishment-9780375709074","title":"Self's Punishment","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHired 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernhard Schlink is the author of the internationally best selling novel \u003cb\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/b\u003e; a collection of short stories, \u003cb\u003eFlights of Love\u003c\/b\u003e; and three other crime novels, \u003cb\u003eThe Gordian Knot\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSelf Deception\u003c\/b\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelf Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e, which are currently being translated into English. He is a professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalter Popp was born in Nuremberg and studied law at the University of Erlangen. He started a law practice in Mannheim before moving to France in 1983. He now lives in a Provencial village with his teenage daughter and works as a translator.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410799825170,"sku":"9780375709074","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e58d3913-609f-44e2-9fe8-45f24ad8f57c.jpg?v=1729307662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selfs-punishment-9780375709074","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}