description: The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary 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, 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.
language: English
title: The Dark Room
titlecomplete: The Dark Room
characters: Helmut, Michael (Micha), Hannelore Dressler (Lore)
genres: British Literature, Historical, World War II, Short Stories, Novels, War, Germany, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2863
places: Germany, Berlin
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage