The Devil's Own Luck
From Hell to Happiness
Will be published approx. on 4. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-80-246-6279-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled into Hungary to escape deportation.
In The Devil's Own Luck, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy's obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.
In The Devil's Own Luck, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy's obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ovocny
Czech Republic
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 130 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-246-6279-4 (9788024662794)
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Ladislav Grosman (1921-1981) was a Slovak Jewish novelist and screenwriter. During World War II, he was sent to a forced labor camp, and much of his family perished. After the war, he studied in Prague and worked as an editor and lecturer. He adapted his own prose into the Academy Award-winning film The Shop on Main Street (1965) and later worked at Barrandov Film Studio. Following his emigration to Israel in 1968, he taught Slavic literature and creative writing in Tel Aviv. David Short is an acclaimed translator of numerous books from Czech and Slovak to English.