Voices in the Dark

“Ulli Lust really nails my favorite part of storytelling… the small details that create great character." —Jaime Hernandez, author of Love and Rockets

Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. 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 of comics storytelling. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her. Based on the acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first graphic novel by the award-winning cartoonist Ulli Lust. In Hitler’s Berlin bunker, with the Red Army closing in, Hermann receives his greatest assignment: recording the Führer’s final words—and the last moments of Helga and her family.. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to party rallies, to the eastern front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. As Germany descends into chaos, Helga’s and Hermann’s lives intertwine, then finally collide. 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

Ulli Lust’s award-winning memoir Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life was called a “sprawling, meditative graphic novel that ripples with exuberance” by The New York Times. She was born in Vienna, and lives and works in Berlin.Marcel Beyer is a writer known for his 1995 novel The Karnau Tapes, upon which Lust’s graphic novel is based. Her published work includes pieces of comics journalism as well as erotic-mythologica