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A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Deft, spare and devastating, Rachel Seiffert's new novel tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. Penned in with his fellow Jews, und ...Show more
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel: `A spellbinding evocation of fear and threat tinged with the possibility of hope and change' - Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetEarly on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a ...Show more
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
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. ...Show more
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is a nurse, he a painter and decorator; both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Alice's father has bee ...Show more
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
A morally complex, understated and moving new novel from the author of The Dark Room and Field Study. Alice and Joseph have a tentative but serious relationship, though each carries an emotional burden: he refuses to speak about his Northern Ireland army life, and her life is full of family absences ...Show more
Field Study by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
From the author of 'The Dark Room' a strikingly powerful collection of stories exploring themes of guilt, love and sacrifice with a haunting emotional precision.
Last Letters - The Prison Correspondence Between Helmuth and Freya Von Moltke, 1944-45 by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke; Johannes von Moltke; Dorothea von Moltke (Editor); Shelley Frisch (Translator); Rachel Seiffert (Afterword by)
Category: Biography
Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage War
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 Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Al ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Category: Fiction
In a place and time with little tolerance for physical flaws, a photographer with a withered arm secures a chance to serve his country? As the war ends, a girl and her siblings flee to safety with a concentration camp survivor whose false papers claim he is Jewish? Half a century later a schoolteacher b ...Show more