The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert by Rachel Seiffert 9780375726323, 0375726322, B0012E3J4W instant download after payment.

Rachel Seiffert explores the complex impact of history on a nation’s psyche through the individual stories of three 20th-century Germans.

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, 50 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.

"A stunning trilogy of linked stories about the Holocaust. Seiffert's book reminds me of Bernard Schlink's The Reader, but unlike that fascinating and intellectually provocative discussion about complicity and collective guilt, The Dark Room never veers away from its fictional roots... It doesn't read like a first novel."  -  Toronto Globe & Mail

Longlisted for the 2002 Women's Prize For Fiction

Rachel Seiffert is the daughter of an Australian father and a German mother. Her novel The Dark Room was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize. She has also written an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study.