The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.
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It deals with the difficulties of subsequent generations to comprehend the Holocaust; specifically, whether a sense of its origins and magnitude can be adequately conveyed solely through written and oral media. This question is increasingly at the center of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust die and its living memory begins to fade.
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Because it has been made into a movie starring Kate Winslet, it's everywhere. Mom loaned it to me. I'm only about halfway through but it's very interesting.