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Product Description: The first English-language collection of stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative younger Czech writers, this volume reveals that, unlike the older generation, these writers have not been disillusioned; their darkness comes not from the disappointment of hopes, but from never having had any...read more
By Elena Lappin (editor)

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9780945774334 | Catbird Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The first English-language collection of stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative younger Czech writers, this volume reveals that, unlike the older generation, these writers have not been disillusioned; their darkness comes not from the disappointment of hopes, but from never having had any.

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A group of women copes with marriages that take them from their native lands and turn their lives upside down, in a humorous, tender debut collection of stories by a former editor of The Jewish Quarterly. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780374157586 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In a collection of humorous stories women cope with marriages that take them from their native lands and turn their lives upside down

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9780312267377 | Picador USA, November 18, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A group of women copes with marriages that take them from their native lands and turn their lives upside down, in a humorous, tender debut collection of stories by a former editor of The Jewish Quarterly.

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Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.
By Elena Lappin (trans) and Chava Pressburger (editor)

Hardcover:

9780871139665 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 10, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.

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Product Description: Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life...read more
By Elena Lappin (trans)

Hardcover:

9781843545538 | Atlantic Books, June 14, 2007, cover price $28.90 | About this edition: In 1941, Petr Ginz was a young teenager living in Prague with his parents and sister.

Paperback:

9780802143600 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 2008), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light.
9781843545545 | Atlantic Books, February 1, 2008, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: In 1941, Petr Ginz was a young teenager living in Prague with his parents and sister.

Hardcover:

9780374288853 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2017, cover price $26.00

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