Rachel Seiffert

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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A debut novel that retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans. Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer’s assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the ...

• Jul-2004
• / General Fiction
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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 chi...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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Alice is the protagonist of Afterwards, but this book is about the guilt harboured by people around her. There are two men in her life: her maternal grandfather, David, recently widowed, and her boyfriend, Joseph, each of whom keeps his past from his...

• Feb-2013
• / Historical
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In Lore, Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans--both survivors of the war and the generations that succeeded them. It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of Germany. A teenage German girl n...

• Jul-2014
• / Historical
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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 ...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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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 conf...