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A devastatingly beautiful novel set in World War II in which a young girl explores the compromises one makes in order to survive.

After witnessing the suicide of her father and the murder of her mother and brother upon their arrival in Auschwitz, fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova is forced to choose between working in a German military brothel on the eastern front or death, in a haunting novel that examines the compromises and choices one is forced to make in order to survive. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: For the first time, Arnošt Lustig's short story collections Street of Lost Brothers and Indecent Dreams and his novel Dita Saxova are brought together in an omnibus edition. As with all of Lustig's works, these tales reverberate with themes of loss and contradiction, with the torments of suffering and survival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Arnošt Lustig's fiction has always been too close to the facts for comfort. In The House of Returned Echoes, he pays tribute to the life of his father, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. In Prague in the difficult time between the wars, a man fights to keep his family and his business alive despite anti-Semitism and economic hardship. Emil Ludvig has always relied on the simple rules of his family and the basic laws of civilization to counteract his misfortunes, and being a decent man himself, he refuses to believe that the Nazi threats will be carried out. Yet, he also becomes a victim of the camps, and his story resonates with both Lustig's personal experiences and the shared memories of the Holocaust. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Dita Saxova is an eighteen-year-old concentration camp survivor trying to start a new life in postwar Prague. Living in a special hostel for orphans from the camps, too old to be cared for parentally, too young to be fully adult, too soaked in reality to harbor many illusions, Dita struggles to reconcile struggles to reconcile her unfathomable past with her enigmatic future...read more

'Morning Till Evening,' 'Infinity,' 'A Man the Size of a Postage Stamp,' 'Clock Like a Windmill,' and other stories reveal the loss, uncertainty, and contradictions of human existence as they were reflected in life under the Nazis

Product Description: In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order--while their inner worlds teem with sexual fantasy, naïve idealism, vengefulness, and visions of justice...read more

As their Nazi captors negotiate their exchange for American-held German officers, twenty Jewish businessmen plead for the life of a woman prisoner

Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author's own childhood experiences and observations

An account of the daring escape of the author and a friend, then teenagers, from a Nazi death train and of their two weeks in Germany's forests trying to survive and make their way back to their native Prague