Rachel Seiffert&#8217;s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer&#8217;s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends his time capturing on film the changing temper of Berlin, the city he loves. Just weeks after Germany&#8217;s surrender, a teenage girl whose parents have been taken into allied custody leads her siblings on a harrowing journey to find their grandmother. And two generations after the war, a teacher searches for the reason why the Russians imprisoned his beloved grandfather. Evoking the experiences of the individual with astonishing emotional depth and psychological acuity, <b>The Dark Room</b> develops a portrait of the twentieth century in all its drama and complexity.