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Dark Room

It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of Germany. A teenage German girl named Lore has been left to fend for herself. Her parents have been arrested by the Allies, and she has four younger siblings to care for. Together, they set off on a harrowing journey to find their grandmother. As we follow Lore on a 500-mile trek through the four zones of occupation, Seiffert evokes the experiences of the individual with astonishing emotional depth and psychological acuity.

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  • "'The Dark Room' tells three stories, of Helmut a young photographer in the 1930s, Lore a 12 year old at the end of the war and Micha half a century later. Between them they trace the legacy of the Nazi period in the lives of ordinary Germans."
  • "It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of Germany. A teenage German girl named Lore has been left to fend for herself. Her parents have been arrested by the Allies, and she has four younger siblings to care for. Together, they set off on a harrowing journey to find their grandmother. As we follow Lore on a 500-mile trek through the four zones of occupation, Seiffert evokes the experiences of the individual with astonishing emotional depth and psychological acuity."@en
  • "Follows the lives of three ordinary Germans, a boy who works as a photographer during the 1930s, a teenage girl who journeys through occupied Germany in search of her grandmother, and a young man seeking the truth about his grandfather, imprisoned by theRussians."@en
  • "Retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans."@en
  • ""Retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans. Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temper of Berlin, the city he lives. But his acute photographic eye never provides him with the power to understand the significance of what he sees through his camera. Lore: In the weeks following Germany's surrender, a teenage girl whose parents are both in Allied captivity takes her younger siblings on a terrifying, illegal journey through the four zones of occupation in search of her grandmother. Micha: Many years after the war, a young man trying to discover why the Russians imprisoned his grandfather for nine years after the war meets resistance at every turn; the only person who agrees, reluctantly, to help him is compromised by his own past."--Jacket."
  • "Retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans. Helmut is a photographer's assistant during the 1930s. His acute photographic eye never provides him with the power to understand the significance of what he sees through his camera. Lore is a teenage girl whose parents are both in Allied captivity takes her younger siblings on a terrifying, illegal journey through the four zones of occupation in search of her grandmother. Micha, after the was is a young man trying to discover why the Russians imprisoned his grandfather for nine years after the war meets resistance at every turn."
  • "This novel retells the history of 20th-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans before, during and after World War II."
  • "A history of 20th century Germany as experienced by three ordinary Germans."@en
  • "Raconte les parcours d'Allemands ordinaires face au nazisme : Helmut, jeune photographe partisan du Reich dans un Berlin dévasté ; Lore, dont les parents, nazis, ont été arrêtés dans une Allemagne défaite ; Micha, qui tente de découvrir, cinquante ans plus tard, si son grand-père est impliqué dans les massacres nazis. A travers eux, comment une nation a pu se perdre."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temper of Berlin, the city he loves. But his acute photographic eye never provides him with the power to understand the significance of what he sees through his camera. In the weeks following Germany's surrender, a teenage girl whose parents are both in Allied captivity takes her younger siblings on a terrifying, illegal journey through the four zones of occupation in search of her grandmother. Many years after the event, a young man trying to discover why the Russians imprisoned his grandfather for nine years after the war meets resistance at every turn; the only person who agrees, reluctantly, to help him has his own tainted past to contend with.--From publisher description."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "English fiction"

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  • "La chambre noire"
  • "De donkere kamer : roman"
  • "Mrac̆na komora"
  • "Temnai︠a︡ komnata"
  • "Temná komora"
  • "Die dunkle Kammer"
  • "Mračna komora"
  • "Mørkekammeret"@da
  • "The Dark room"
  • "El Cuarto oscuro"
  • "Dark Room"@en
  • "Dark Room"
  • "The Dark Room"
  • "Lore"@en
  • "Lore"@hu
  • "Lore"
  • "Lore : roman"
  • "La camera oscura"
  • "La camera oscura"@it
  • "The dark room"
  • "The dark room"@en
  • "El cuarto oscuro"@es
  • "To skoteino dōmatio : mythistorēma"

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