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A devastatingly beautiful novel set in World War II in which a fifteen-year-old girl explores and delineates the compromises one is forced to make in order to survive in a world gone mad. She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she and her family have just been transported from Terezín to Auschwitz. Her mother and younger brother are quickly dispatched to the gas chambers, her father has committed suicide, but young Hanka Kaudersová, working as one of Dr. Krueger's cleaners, is still alive. When Dr. Krueger is suddenly transferred to a new post, Hanka fears that she will meet the fate that awaits the general camp population. On her last day working in the doctor's office, she is suddenly startled to see a girl dressed not in the usual striped prison garb but decked out as if on her way to a party. Inquiring where the girl is headed dressed so strangely, she is told: to audition for a position in a German soldiers' brothel. And you need to be eighteen and Aryan, the girl add
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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.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech
Original Language: Czech
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611451876
- ISBN 13 9781611451870
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Lovely Green Eyes; A Novel
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Arcade Publishing, New York
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ISBN 10: 1611451876
ISBN 13: 9781611451870
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Book Description Softcover (Photographic). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Photographic paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A novel that explores the decision that 15 year-old Hanka Kaudersova, who has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When she is offered a chance at life, when her parents and brother have been sent to the gas chambers, to work in a German military brothel; ". she chooses a chance at life. Passing for an Ayran, Hanka spends her days in the brothel cold, hungry, fearful and ashamed. She sustained only by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live."  from the rear panel blurb. A little creasing of the book corners with the lower right-hand corner of the front panel starting to curl. A little rubbing of the book edges and panels. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 248, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Holocaust; Poland; WW II; ISBN: 1611451876. ISBN/EAN: 9781611451870. Inventory No: 0129913. Seller Inventory # 0129913
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