The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert
None pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099483491
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2005
British LiteratureFictionGermanyHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionNovelsShort StoriesWarWorld War II
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary 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.