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Rachel Seiffert

Biography

Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert’s first novel, THE DARK ROOM, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, won the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize, and was the basis for the acclaimed motion picture Lore. She was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003; in 2004, FIELD STUDY, her collection of short stories, received an award from PEN Inter-national. Her second novel, AFTERWARDS, was long-listed for the 2007 Orange Prize, and in 2011 she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been published in 18 languages. Formerly of Glasgow, she now lives in London with her family.

Rachel Seiffert

Books by Rachel Seiffert

A Boy in Winter
by Rachel Seiffert - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Early on a gray November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of deportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his two sons, missing since daybreak. Come in search of her lover, to fetch him home again, away from the invaders, Yasia must confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her. Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines, and no one but himself to turn to. And in the midst of it all is Yankel, a boy determined to survive this. But to do so, he must throw in his lot with strangers.

The Dark Room
by Rachel Seiffert