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The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert

 

Description: ISBN 009928717X / Author: Rachel Seiffert / Genre: Fiction / The Dark Room is a careful study of three Germans affected by the Second ... more
The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert ... World War: Helmut the young photographer with the deformed arm; Lore the 12-year-old who manages to get her refugee siblings to Hamburg in 1945; and Micha the young teacher who pursues the truth about his grandfather's war years 50 years later.

Newest Review: ... The first story is set in Berlin before and during the Second World War. Helmut is born musing muscles in his chest and ... more

 ... thus has a withered arm. Due to this he is not able to conscript in the German Army. Instead he becomes a photographer observing and documenting life in wartime Berlin.. I found this story the least emotionally involving as Helmut seems a little bit simple and although there are clues to the darker side of what was happening in Germany such as the exodus of people in trains and a snap shot of gypsies being herded up by soldiers Holocaust seems to affect him least out of the three main characters. This is follo...more

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Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 009928717
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duskmaiden
Crowned Review The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert: So what did you do in the war grandad? (970 words)
by duskmaiden - written on 18/06/07 (Very useful, 174 readings)
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"So what did you do in the war granddad?" "I murdered innocent people" History can be a very difficult subject to study due too the cruelness of human beings. It is difficult to comprehend the need for power and the sheer disregard for human life when committing genocide and trying to eliminate a whole group of people. The Jewish pogroms, the Highland Clearances, the Russian Gulags, Pol Pot and the Khmir Rouge, and the ethnic cleansing in the former coroutines of Yugoslavia. The list is endless and unlikely to end as there will always be power mad dictators. Above them all there is Hitler's regime and the Holocaust. I have ...

pje
Premium Review Guilt (710 words)
by pje - written on 24/02/02 (Very useful, 98 readings)
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I have to admit that I didn't approach this book with a good attitude. Not another bloody book about the War, I thought. If this year's Booker Prize judges short-list another war book, why I'll... Ahem, anyway... Rachel Seiffert is half German and half-Australian, she was bullied at school for being 'a Nazi' - rather unlikely seeing as she was born in Oxford in 1971. She wrote The Dark Room at Glasgow University, and now lives in Berlin. I put off reading this book for a long time. I was wrong to, because it's not what I expected at all. I've never read (almost) 400 pages quite so quickly - it's a real page-turner. ...

 

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