cover image Life with a Star

Life with a Star

Jiri Weil. Penguin Books, $8.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-013171-0

A man who escapes assignment to a concentration camp during the Holocaust clings to hope despite the persecution he witnesses, and finally goes underground with a resistance fighter's help. ``Powerful, yet small in scope, this is as much an indictment of materialism--and greed--as it is a chilling portrait of Nazi-occupied Prague,'' PW said. (Mar.)