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Rachel Seiffert’s 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 after-effect.

Rachel Seiffert’s 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 after-effect. Alice is the protagonist of Afterwards, but this book is about the guilt harboured by people around her. There are two men in her life: her maternal grandfather, Dav Rachel Seiffert’s 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 after-effect.

Didn’t know the companies, but he saw what they were doing. They’ll chance a bit extra because they know he won’t be able to do it himself. to have enough money and his kids will be too busy to help. It was a Wednesday morning and they were having breakfast at the café round the corner from his flat. Alice had a training day at work, so she didn’t have to be in until later, and Joseph had the rest of the week off. He was angry for her grandad, and he wrote down a couple of numbers on a paper napkin for Alice.

Rachel Seiffert's Afterwards looks at this struggle as she returns to themes explored in her Booker-nominated novel The Dark Room: guilt, culpability, responsibility and our knowledge of one another. Alice and Joseph meet in the pub and fall into a relationship that is easy but slightly distant. When he left, Joseph would just say he'd see her soon, and Alice liked that too: the way he wasn't asking or presuming, and how they managed neither to force nor avoid the question.

Rachel Seiffert writes in a seemingly effortless and simple style to convey deep and timeless truths. With "Afterwards" she has engineered two gripping tales of ex-combatants in wars, a generation and more apart, whose moral purpose came to be questioned subsequently. In each case their individual memories and sense of guilt, misplaced or not, complicate relationships with people close to them. The cleverly titled "Afterwards" discloses elements of their experiences slowly and differently to the reader and to other characters.

Rachel Seiffert’s first novel, The Dark Room, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, won the Los .

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 Britis. ore about Rachel Seiffert. About Rachel Seiffert. If relevance is what you look for in fiction, you need look no further.

Her first book, a collection of three interrelated novellas, The Dark Room . Seiffert writes with economy, accomplishing in a line what many can’t in a page and producing a work that’s elegant in its seemingly organic shape.

Her first book, a collection of three interrelated novellas, The Dark Room, addressed the alienation and guilt suffered by descendants of Nazi sympathizers. Her new novel, Afterwards, is an equally oblique exploration of how thoroughly society is disabled by war, in this case the corrosive hostilities in Northern Ireland. Good for you, her friend Clare says. Even better, she doesn’t betray the effort, the art, required to render that shape.

The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and lives in London.

Все продавцы . Afterwards. 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.

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When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but sincere relationship

Rachel Seiffert’s 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 after-effect.