The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and lives in London. She is the author the Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room and an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study. She was named one of Granta”s “Best of Young British” and one of 25 women writers to watch in the “Orange Futures” promotion.
27 Ebooks por Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert: Dark Room
In The Dark Room, the experiences of three people are evoked with stunning emotional depth and psychological authenticity.A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer’s assistant …
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Rachel Seiffert: Afterwards
Rachel Seifferts 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 …
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Rachel Seiffert: Lore (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Now a Major Motion Picture, Lore (previously published as The Dark Room) is a powerful, suspenseful work of fiction that examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans — both immediate surv …
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Anna Seghers: Seventh Cross
‘At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler’s Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document. …
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Rachel Seiffert: Field Study
Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals hi …
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Rachel Seiffert: Walk Home
Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.Stevie’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home …
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Rachel Seiffert: Boy in Winter
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel: `A spellbinding evocation of fear and threat tinged with t …
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Rachel Seiffert: Dark Room
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 …
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Rachel Seiffert: Afterwards
To love someone, need you know everything about them?When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. Both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each …
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Rachel Seiffert: Blue / Tentsmuir Sands (Storycuts)
In ‘Blue’, Kenny sets about furnishing and decorating his first flat. However, his giddiness does not last long. Even as his family and friends aid him in the feathering of his nest his worries mount …
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Rachel Seiffert: Architect / The Crossing (Storycuts)
In ‘Architect’, an architect of rare charm and vision encounters an emotional crisis that threatens his career. When the ensuing strain starts to affect his family relationships, he must rethink his …
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Rachel Seiffert: Dimitroff (Storycuts)
When Jochen left his father behind in East Germany he carried his resentment with him. This lingering antipathy intrigues and confuses his American wife, Hannah. When a tentative reconciliation is br …
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Rachel Seiffert: Dog-Leg Lane (Storycuts)
A young couple find their attempts to move to a new flat thwarted when their three year-old son rebels against the idea of leaving the only home he has ever known. It is as difficult to will a connec …
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Rachel Seiffert: Field Study (Storycuts)
Martin is a graduate student spending a week undertaking scientific field study in a neighbouring, post-Communist country. He sees a residual bitterness among the town’s people about the empty promis …
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Rachel Seiffert: Francis John Jones, 1924- (Storycuts)
A Ph D student interviews her friend’s grandfather for her thesis. While not quite meeting her eyes, he recounts his wartime history, lingering on an excursion that has never been far from his mind. …
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Rachel Seiffert: Reach (Storycuts)
Alice tacitly agrees with Kim’s teachers when they hint that her daughter is not an easy child. A single mother of two, the bond with her second-born didn’t present itself readily. Part of the Storyc …
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Rachel Seiffert: Second Best (Storycuts)
A young Polish woman has left her son to work as a temporary farm hand across the German border. The prospect of a few weeks’ wages is not her only motivation for crossing the border, though.Part of …
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Rachel Seiffert: Late Spring (Storycuts)
The beekeeper has lived in solitude for some fifty years. One day while waiting for Spring to descend he spies a young boy crossing the valley towards the copse where he keeps his hives. With a depen …
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Bidisha & Shami Chakrabarti: Refugee Tales
Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum, inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in sweeping …
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€7.64
Margaret Atwood & Susie Boyt: Furies
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.’Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler’ Red Magazine’Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring …
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