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 Germ
Rachel Seiffert’s first book, The Dark Room, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, announced the arrival of a major writer; Afterwards fulfills that promise with a stunning novel about war and its brutal after-effect.Alice is the protagonist of Afterwards,
One of Malraux's most exotic novels, The Way of Kings is a perfect companion to Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness.Claude and Perken meet on a liner heading for Indo-China, and throw in their lots together to form a dual expedition into the perilous Ca
