Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/02/2002
ISBN: 9780099287179
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/02/2002
ISBN: 9780099287179
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £9.99
Intensely observed debut… Perfectly balanced
A startlingly powerful debut... Not to be missed
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
What a bold book... Compelling... Challenging and substantial
Guilt, shame, responsibility, new beginnings, the individual in history - these are Seiffert's subjects, conveyed in a style of deceptive simplicity... Provocative and accomplished