The effortlessness of her language is remarkable given the complexity of perspectives she entertains. Her voice sings with aching precision yet possesses a glorious innocence that can trouble the simplest of words. Seiffert writes with such extraordinary elegance that it takes your breath away. Thirty-year-old Rachel Seiffert, a first novelist from England who lives in Germany, proves this to be true with her stunning debut novel, The Dark Room. This cynic might reply: Do you have room in yourself for another story about love? Whatever the subject, there is no end to the ways of telling. In the never-ending wake of such incidents of humanity gone horribly wrong, countless writers (two and even three generations of them now) have framed stories that grapple with "the big questions."Ī cynic might ask whether we have room in ourselves for another story about the Holocaust.
In Western literature, Second World War Germany is, without question, the darkest room of all. At its bleakest, human history can be looked upon as a series of dark rooms and often darker passages.
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