A la cambra fosca

The writer and journalist Susan Faludi remembers her father, with whom she has had no contact for years, as a sexist, distant and even aggressive man. But when he learns that at the age of seventy-six he has undergone a sex-change operation, he decides to travel to Budapest to meet him again. This is the starting point of the extraordinary research he undertakes to understand this man who identifies as a son, a Hungarian Jew, a Holocaust survivor, an emigrant, a husband, a professional retouching photographer, and finally , Stefánie, a septuagenarian trans woman with whom she must forge a new relationship. In the dark room is a biographical book that explores the limits of the idea of identity and analyzes them in a multifaceted and fascinating way based on gender, nationality, politics, religion and image. A brave study of family and human relationships that becomes a parable about understanding and forgiveness.