Rachel Seiffert

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Once the Deed Is Done

  • A Boy in Winter

    Early on a gray November morning in 1941, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Penned in with his fellow Jews, a father anxiously awaits word of his two sons, while a young woman, come to fetch her sweetheart away from the invaders, must conf...

  • The Walk Home

    Stevie hasn't set foot in his home town for years, and he can’t decide whether to let his family -- what’s left of them, anyway -- know he’s back. He wasn’t the first to cut and run -- in their own ways, his mother, his father, and his uncle ...

  • Lore

    In Lore, Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans--both survivors of the war and the generations that succeeded them. It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of Germany. A teenage German girl n...

  • Afterwards

    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, David, recently widowed, and her boyfriend, Joseph, each of whom keeps his past from his...

  • Field Study

    Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this dazzling and haunting group of stories. Set against immense political upheaval, or evoking the intimate struggles between men and women, parents and chi...

  • The Dark Room

    A debut novel that retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans. Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer’s assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the ...



Award-Winning Books by Rachel Seiffert

The Dark Room
2001 L.A. Times Book Prize -- First Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rachel Seiffert has published 7 books.

Rachel Seiffert does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Once the Deed Is Done, was published in March 2025.

The first book by Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room, was published in May 2001.

No. Rachel Seiffert does not write books in series.
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