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Darkness and Company

Sigitas Parulskis Karla Gruodis

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English
Peter Owen
01 August 2018
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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Translated by:  
Imprint:   Peter Owen
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 138mm, 
ISBN:   9780720620337
ISBN 10:   0720620333
Series:   Peter Owen World Series: Baltics
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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