Lore (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International) - Softcover

WINNER – Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction
FINALIST 2001 – Booker Prize
LONGLISTED 2002 – Orange Prize for Fiction
A Globe and Mail Best Book  
“[S]tunning.... Seiffert writes with such extraordinary elegance that it takes your breath away. Her voice stings with aching precision yet possesses a glorious innocence that can trouble the simplest of words. The effortlessness of her language is remarkable given the complexity of perspectives she entertains.... The tension of being implicitly involved in a history one did not necessarily condone is stretched agonizingly taut through Seiffert’s quiet exploration of the subtle complexities of competing perceptions within a self, within a family, within a nation.”
—Camilla Gibb, The Globe and Mail

“It’s a painful subject and no less so in Seiffert’s handling of it. The reading itself, though, is easy. The airiness of Seiffert’s prose, her deft management of the present tense, makes the narrator—even the page—disappear.”
—Toronto Star

“[An] ambitious and powerful first novel.... Seiffert writes lean, clean prose. Deftly, she hangs large ideas on the vivid private experiences of her principal characters.”
—The New York Times

“[A] page-turner.... Not only does [Seiffert] fully address one of the most dismal episodes in human history, but she does so with a nuanced approach that encourages insight even as it prompts debate.”
—The Vancouver Sun

“Exquisite.... [A] beautifully written, elegant and emotional trilogy of theme-linked chronicles...Seiffert sifts the layers of guilt and denial which permeated German society at the end of the Second World War, layers that began to shift and change with succeeding generations.”
—The London Free Press

“[M]agnetic.... Gripping storytelling of tremendous force.”
—Edmonton Journal