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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, and 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.

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Early on a gray November morning in 1941, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Penned in with his fellow Jews, a father anxiously awaits word of his two sons, while a young woman, come to fetch her sweetheart away from the invaders, must confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her. At the same time, a German engineer, here to avoid a war he considers criminal, is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines ...

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 all...

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Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. A Boy In Winter tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. And in the midst of it all is the determined boy Yankel who will throw his and his young brother's chances of surviving to strangers.A Boy In Winter is a story of hope when all is lost, and of mercy when the times have n...

From the Man Booker shortlisted author of the Dark Room comes a new novel about love and the desire to come home.

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The new novel from Rachel Seiffert, author of the Booker-shortlisted The Dark Room.

Scheiffert's Booker-shortlisted novel, which tells the story of three ordinary Germans - Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s, Lore a twelve year-old in the aftermath of W.W.II, and Micha, a young teacher in the 1990s, coming to terms with the past of his family and his country.

Lore is het ongelooflijke verhaal van vijf kinderen die na de capitulatie in de zomer van 1945 door het verwoeste Duitsland trekken. Geïndoctrineerd door hun ouders, opgepakte nazi's, kunnen zijn niet begrijpen dat de Führer hen niet meer kan helpen. Met het jonge meisje Lore voorop lopen ze bijne duizend kilometer naar hun oma in Hamburg. Onderweg moeten ze voedsel en onderdak vinden, en zich staande houden in een nieuwe wereld.

Stevie hasn't set foot in his home town for years, and he can't decide whether to let his family-what's left of them, anyway-know he's back. He wasn't the first to cut and run-in their own ways, his mother, his father, and his uncle all fled before he did-but should he be the first to come home? Moving between Stevie's life as a construction worker in present-day Glasgow and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a h...

Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this dazzling and haunting group of stories. Set against immense political upheaval, or evoking the intimate struggles between men and women, parents and children, this astonishing collection charts our desire for love, our fragility, and our strength. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a ...

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El cuarto oscuro cuenta la historia de tres alemanes corrientes del siglo XX la de Helmut, un joven fotógrafo que, en el Berlín de los años treinta, utiliza su oficio para expresar su fervor patriótico, la de Lore, una muchacha de doce años que en 1945 tiene que conducir a sus hermanos pequeños por toda Alemania después de que los aliados encarcelen a sus padres nazis, y, cincuenta años después, la de Micha, un joven profesor obsesionado por l...

When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but sincere relationship. She is a nurse, he a house painter, and while both are still young and hopeful about this new love, each of them carries an emotional burden. Alice's father has been a yawning absence all her life, and just recently her beloved grandmother—who helped to raise her-passed away. For his part, Joseph refuses to speak about his experiences as a soldier in North...