Dimensions
129 x 198 x 25mm
Each of us is an individual; each of us has individual responsibility for our own actions. Each of us is also a member of a family, of families; each of us is a citizen of a state, a member of a nation. Can we, must we, take responsibility for them, for their actions too? In twentieth century Europe, perhaps in no other country such questions had the resonance as they have had in Germany.
'The Dark Room' tells the story of three ordinary twentieth-century 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 half-a-century later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in he war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
