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Voices in the Dark
Voices in the Dark
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Ulli Lust and Marcel Beyer
The second graphic novel by Ulli Lust to be published in English, Voices in the Dark adapts Marcel Beyer's novel, translated as The Karnau Tapes, into a tour-de-force vision of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a child. This will appeal to serious fans of graphic novels as well as readers of historical fiction.
Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer, obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations -- the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear -- and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to Party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her...
Voices in the Dark, which is adapted from Marcel Beyer's celebrated novel The Karnau Tapes, is the first graphic novel by the award-winning cartoonist Ulli Lust. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece of comics storytelling. As Germany descends into chaos, Helga and Hermann's lives intertwine, then finally collide. In Hitler's Berlin bunker, with the Red Army closing in, Hermann receives his greatest assignment: recording the Fuhrer's final words--and the last moments of Helga and her family.
Voices in the Dark, which is adapted from Marcel Beyer's celebrated novel The Karnau Tapes, is the first graphic novel by the award-winning cartoonist Ulli Lust. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece of comics storytelling. As Germany descends into chaos, Helga and Hermann's lives intertwine, then finally collide. In Hitler's Berlin bunker, with the Red Army closing in, Hermann receives his greatest assignment: recording the Fuhrer's final words--and the last moments of Helga and her family.
