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 an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the
first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic
memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life 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.
This NYRC edition is a trade paperback and features full color
throughout and new English hand-lettering.