The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; and, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099287179
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 277 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
Intensely observed debut… Perfectly balanced - Guardian
A startlingly powerful debut... Not to be missed - Daily Mail
Ambitious and powerful... Seiffert writes lean, clean prose. Deftly, she hangs large ideas on the vivid private experiences of her principal characters.... Poignant - and ultimately optimistic... Engrossing - New York Times
What a bold book... Compelling... Challenging and substantial - Time Out
Guilt, shame, responsibility, new beginnings, the individual in history - these are Seiffert's subjects, conveyed in a style of deceptive simplicity... Provocative and accomplished - The Times
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