{"product_id":"voices-in-the-dark-isbn-9781681371054","title":"Voices in the Dark","description":"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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, \u003ci\u003eVoices in the Dark \u003c\/i\u003eis the first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in English in 2013. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis NYRC edition is a trade paperback and features full color throughout and new English hand-lettering.\"A daring and ambitious graphic novel.” —Rachel Cooke,\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lust, author of the acclaimed graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e, turns \u003ci\u003eThe Karnau Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcel Beyer’s chronicle of a quirky, Nazi-employed sound engineer who befriends a daughter of Joseph Goebbels, into a completely sui generis work: a masterpiece in faded hues, expressionistic pen strokes, and panels laid out to amplify a painful story.\" —Boris Kachka, \u003ci\u003eVulture.com (New York Magazine)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Following her award-winning graphic novel memoir \u003ci\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Lust adapts \u003ci\u003eThe Karnau Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e, Beyer’s dense, dark novel set during the collapse of the Third Reich. She is more than up to the task, transmuting the material with visual imagination and insight….It’s a rare adaptation that, rather than simply transcribing the source material, transcends it.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Profound, with characters driven to find truths that ultimately prove devastating. Lust's clean, confident lines richly convey everything from a child's discomfort with a haircut to a dog's eagerness to play to Karnau's sheer bliss from a 'quivering glottis.'...The illustration style and muted color palette (like an aged newspaper) achieve a haunting realism despite cartoonish exaggeration and expressionistic flourishes. Stunning.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ulli Lust really nails my favorite part of storytelling… the small details that create great character.\" —Jaime Hernandez, author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eUlli Lust\u003c\/b\u003e’s acclaimed graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e was called a “sprawling, meditative graphic novel [that] ripples with exuberance” by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Her published work includes pieces of comics journalism as well as erotic-mythological poems, and she runs the online publishing company www.electrocomics.com. She was born in Vienna and lives and works in Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel Beyer\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning German novelist and poet. His 1995 novel \u003ci\u003eFlughunde\u003c\/i\u003e, upon which Ulli Lust’s graphic novel is based, was translated in 1997 as \u003ci\u003eThe Karnau Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Brownjohn\u003c\/b\u003e has translated over 160 books, including works by Willy Brandt, Hans Hellmut Kirst, and Walter Moers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNika Knight\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator of German literature, most recently Svenja Leiber’s novel \u003ci\u003eThe Last Country\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305088405733,"sku":"NP9781681371054","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681371054.jpg?v=1767743513","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/voices-in-the-dark-isbn-9781681371054","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}