Three days

A new novel by Bernhard Schlink, author of the famous "Reader - talks about the first three days at liberty life-sentenced, but after twenty-four years in prison pardoned German terrorist, a leader of the ultra-leftist extremist organization "red army Faction" (RAF), which for nearly three decades, led with the state "urban guerrilla war".
The first days at large prove to be a difficult challenge for Jorg and his old friends, former associates, who gathered on the occasion of the release of Jorge to help him adapt in a new, free life.
However, not having dealt with the past, it is impossible to build the future. As in the past, jörg - daring abduction and murder, hijacking, the struggle for the liberation from prison of fellow terrorists, ultimatums to the government, a constant risk, a fanatical belief in the idea... and then almost a quarter of a century in prison. So maybe it was real life, and is found only pathetic, invalid life, by the grace hated once state? Or the past was a horrible mistake, and then all the sacrifices, all the blood in vain?.. But if the future is still possible, then what is its meaning? What is the meaning of life?