Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel - Softcover

Arnost Lustig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559706961 ISBN 13: 9781559706964

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

After witnessing the suicide of her father and the murder of her mother and brother upon their arrival in Auschwitz, fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova is forced to choose between working in a German military brothel on the eastern front or death, in a haunting novel that examines the compromises and choices one is forced to make in order to survive. Reprint.

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About the Author

Arnost Lustig was born in Prague in 1926. In 1942 he was sent by the Nazis to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz, where his father died in the gas chambers, and finally to Buchenwald. He left Czechoslovakia after the Soviet occupation in 1968. He settled in 1970 in Washington D. C., where he was Professor of Literature at the American University. He is the author of The Unloved, Diamonds of the Night, A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova and Night and Hope. He is a two-time winner of the Jewish National Book Award. Arnost Lustig died in February 2011.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559706961
• ISBN 13: 9781559706964
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256