Life with a Star
Will be published approx. on 30. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8101-1685-6 (ISBN)
Description
Set during the Nazi occupation of Prague, Life with a Star records the day-to-day life of Josef Roubicek, an ex-bank clerk, who discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. "One of the most powerful works to emerge from the Holocaust; it is a fierce and necessary work of art".--The New York Times.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1685-6 (9780810116856)
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Person
JIRI WEIL (1900-1959) was a major Czech writer in the 1930s but is most widely known today of his two postwar works Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof. In 1942 he was summoned for transport to a concentration camp with the rest of Prague Jewry but managed to escape and hide for the duration of the war. He died in Prague in 1959.