The Dark Room
, by SEIFFERT, RACHELNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375726323 | 0375726322
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/8/2002
Rachel Seiffert's absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people. At the onset of World War II, a young photographer's assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends his time capturing on film the changing temper of Berlin, the city he loves. Just weeks after Germany's surrender, a teenage girl whose parents have been taken into allied custody leads her siblings on a harrowing journey to find their grandmother. And two generations after the war, a teacher searches for the reason why the Russians imprisoned his beloved grandfather. Evoking the experiences of the individual with astonishing emotional depth and psychological acuity,The Dark Roomdevelops a portrait of the twentieth century in all its drama and complexity.