Darkness and Company

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By Sigitas Parulskis

Series: Peter Owen World Series: Baltics

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Darkness and Company by Sigitas Parulskis explores the moral complexities of life during wartime in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. The story follows a photographer thrust into documenting the atrocities committed, leading him to face haunting ethical dilemmas and the struggle between survival and complicity. This intense narrative delves into human vulnerability, the depth of guilt, and the pursuit of redemption amid an oppressive regime.
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Darkness and Company

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. 'Darkness and Company' is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the safe-keeping of his Jewish lover.

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Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. Darkness and Company is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the safe-keeping of his Jewish lover.

Lithuania, 1941, Vincentas has made a Faustian pact with an SS officer: in exchange for his own safety and that of his Jewish lover, Judita, he will take photographs—make art—of the mass killings of Jews in the villages and forests of his occupied homeland.

Learning of the pact that has kept her safe for so long, a disgusted Judita returns to her husband, surrendering herself to the ghetto, leaving Vincentas alone and trapped in his horrifying work. Through the metaphor of photography, Sigitas Parulskis lays bare the passivity and complicity of many of his countrymen in the darkest chapter of Lithuania's recent history in which 94 per cent of its Jewish population perished.

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ISBN: 9780720620337

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Peter Owen Publishers

Contributors:

Translated by Karla Gruodis

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction History & Military Literary Fiction Military History Series: Peter Owen World Series: Baltics Sigitas Parulskis

About the Author

SIGITAS PARULSKIS (b. 1965, Obeliai) is the most celebrated and translated of Lithuania's contemporary writers. His first novel, 'Trys sekundes dangaus' ('Three Seconds of Heaven'), was published in 2008, and was inspired by his experiences serving in a parachute regiment in the GDR. In all, he has published three award-winning novels and numerous collections of poetry and essays.