
The Dark Room
2 journalers for this copy...

Journal Entry 1 by millycat from Northampton, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Three very different stories based around the German experience during the Nazi era and its echoes through history.

Journal Entry 2 by millycat at Northampton, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 16, 2025
Released 1 mo ago (1/18/2025 UTC) at Northampton, Northamptonshire United Kingdom
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One of those special books that I always want to RABCK if possible, as it deserves an appreciative reader. I hope that you find it as thoughtful and interesting as I did.

Journal Entry 3 by WormyOne at Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Monday, January 20, 2025
It was so kind of you to RABCK this to me. I'm looking forward to reading it.
For future potential readers: the blurb reads,
"The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses hi craft to express hi 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, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country".
For future potential readers: the blurb reads,
"The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses hi craft to express hi 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, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country".

Journal Entry 4 by WormyOne at Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 5, 2025
It amazes me how many different aspects of, and perspectives on, the second world war there are around which to base novels. This one deals with the aftermath and legacy in Germany, and the story that will stay with me the longest is that of Lore and her siblings.
I've often wondered what happens in the days and weeks after a war comes to an end. How is the chaos resolved? Is it immediately clear who is on the winning side and who on the losing? Understanding that the reason her parents were taken away is that they were on the losing side, 12-year-old Lore sets off on foot to lead her younger siblings to her grandmother's house in Hamburg. On the way, the five children encounter other desperate refugees, some from the losing side some from the winning, some more trustworthy than others.
It's a novel to make you think: about good and evil; about guilt and innocence; about redemption and shame.
I've often wondered what happens in the days and weeks after a war comes to an end. How is the chaos resolved? Is it immediately clear who is on the winning side and who on the losing? Understanding that the reason her parents were taken away is that they were on the losing side, 12-year-old Lore sets off on foot to lead her younger siblings to her grandmother's house in Hamburg. On the way, the five children encounter other desperate refugees, some from the losing side some from the winning, some more trustworthy than others.
It's a novel to make you think: about good and evil; about guilt and innocence; about redemption and shame.