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The Dark Room

The Dark Room

Rachel Seiffert (born 1971)

English editions

Written in English

  • The Dark Room

    Vintage · United States · 8 October 2002 · Paperback · 288 pages

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  • The Dark Room

    William Heinemann · United Kingdom · 2001 · 391 pages

  • The Dark Room

    Pantheon Books · United States · 2001 · 278 pages

  • The Dark Room

    Vintage · United Kingdom · 7 February 2002 · Paperback · 400 pages

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Three stories make up the book. Helmut, unfit for the army because of a disability, works for a Berlin photographer and spends the war years recording his beloved city's changing mood. In 1945, weeks after the surrender, twelve-year-old Lore, whose Nazi parents are in Allied hands, leads her younger brothers and sister across a ruined Germany to their grandmother. Fifty years later Micha, a teacher, cannot rest until he knows why the Soviets held his grandfather and what the old man did in the war.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
War, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Germany, 1930s–1990s
First published
2001
Author's age
30 when first published
ISBN

9780434009862 (William Heinemann, United Kingdom)

9780375421044 (Pantheon Books, United States)

9780099287179 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9780375726323 (Vintage, United States)

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