Voices In The Dark

Author(s): Ulli Lust & Marcel Beyer

Graphic Novel

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. Based on the acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark 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 na'vetU and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece of comics storytelling. As Germany descends into chaos, Helga's 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 F3hrer's final words-and the last moments of Helga and her family.


Product Information

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.

Ulli Lust's award-winning memoir Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life was called a osprawling, meditative graphic novel (that) ripples with exuberanceo by The New York Times. Her published work includes pieces of comics journalism as well as erotic-mythological poems. She runs the online publishing company www.electrocomics.com. She was born in Vienna and lives and works in Berlin.Marcel Beyer is a writer known for his 1995 novel The Karnau Tapes, upon which Ulli Lust's graphic novel, Voices in the Dark, is based. He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

General Fields

  • : 9781681371054
  • : The New York Review of Books, Inc
  • : The New York Review of Books, Inc
  • : October 2017
  • : United States
  • : November 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ulli Lust & Marcel Beyer
  • : Paperback
  • : Main
  • : 368