Arnost Lustig, Author , trans. from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Arcade $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-55970-629-2
Prague-born Lustig (The Bitter Smell of Almonds) adds this chronicle of a resilient teenage girl to his highly regarded oeuvre of spare and haunting novels rooted in the Holocaust. The "lovely green eyes" of the title belong to 15-year-old...
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Arnost Lustig, Author Northwestern University Press $18 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1347-3
Lustig, himself a Holocaust survivor, writes of a teenage girl's experiences in a concentration camp in this extensively revised edition of a novel first published in 1979. (Oct.)
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Arnost Lustig, Author Arbor House $14.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-87795-739-3
This fictional diary, stoic jottings by a 17-year-old inmate of Theresienstadt, underlines the anguish of the Holocaust through its very absence of complaint. Tiny, exquisite, a self-styled Jewish whore, Perla contemplates her body and the men who...
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Arnost Lustig, Author, Jonathan Brent, Foreword by Northwestern University Press $32.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0959-9
In these seven stories, Lustig ( Diamonds of the Night ) depicts the dreams and bitter misfortunes of ordinary people transformed by the Holocaust. He writes with the sharp, clear vision of a prophet, whether describing the devastated mother of a...
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Arnost Lustig, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator Northwestern University Press $17.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0773-1
Much of the current fiction in English about World War II is escapist writing, couched in terms of derring-do, that cheapens the people who actually had to suffer Nazis brutality. The three novellas in this collection have nothing to do with that...
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