Arnost Lustig

Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle, and her fierce, burning desire for life. Lovely Green Eyes explores the compromises and sacrifices that an individual may make in order to survive, the way a woman can retain her identity in the face of appalling trauma, and the value of human life itself. This is a remarkable novel, which soars beyond nightmare, leaving the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 999
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628722093
• Artikelnr.: 54882325

Autorenporträt

Arnošt Lustig, born in 1926, was sixteen when the Nazis sent him first to Theresienstadt (Terezín), later to Auschwitzwhere father died in the gas chambersand finally to Buchenwald. He left the former Czechoslovakia in 1968 and settled in the United States. He taught literature for many years at American University in Washington, DC. The author of novels, poetry, and short stories, he won the National Jewish Book Award twice and was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2008. He died in his native Prague in 2011.