Jiri Weil, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (224p) 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...
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Jiri Weil, Author Penguin Books $10 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-016776-4
From the Czech author of Life with a Star comes this fierce and mocking portrayal of the changes wrought upon ordinary lives by the Nazi occupation of Prague. (June)
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Jiri Weil, Author, Marie Winn, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-374-20810-3
Originally published in Czech in 1960, this novel by the author of Life with a Star is a fierce and mocking portrayal of ordinary lives as they are changed by the presence of the Nazis in occupied Prague. When top-level Nazi Reinhard Heydrich...
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Jiri Weil, Author, Roslyn Schloss, Translator, R. Klima, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-18737-8
This slim, wartime classic was written in the mid-1940s when the author's experiences during the Holocaust were still fresh; the ``star'' of the title refers of course to the Star of David European Jews under Hitler were forced to wear. It opens as...
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