Lovely Green Eyes - Softcover
A devastatingly beautiful novel set in World War II in which a fifteen-year-old girl explores and delineates the compromises one is forced to make in order to survive in a world gone mad. She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she and her family have just been transported from Terezín to Auschwitz. Her mother and younger brother are quickly dispatched to the gas chambers, her father has committed suicide, but young Hanka Kaudersová, working as one of Dr. Krueger's cleaners, is still alive. When Dr. Krueger is suddenly transferred to a new post, Hanka fears that she will meet the fate that awaits the general camp population. On her last day working in the doctor's office, she is suddenly startled to see a girl dressed not in the usual striped prison garb but decked out as if on her way to a party. Inquiring where the girl is headed dressed so strangely, she is told: to audition for a position in a German soldiers' brothel. And you need to be eighteen and Aryan, the girl adds. Hanka is fifteen, and Jewish. As the girls file into the far office, Hanka determines to audition, hoping her acceptance will ensure her survival. Chosen for her alabaster skin and deceptively Aryan features, she joins the other girls and is immediately given the nickname "Lovely Green Eyes." Thus begins her new career in a brothel on the already crumbling eastern front. The only way Hanka can cope with her terrible new role is to shut down her feelings, freeze what is left of her emotions. And from here on her nightmare--peopled with SS officers she despises but is obliged to please--intensifies. This devastatingly beautiful novel explores and delineates the impossible choices one sometimes has to make in life, when the fabric of the world is rent asunder.
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"Lustig writes about the Holocaust experience with a modest authority that is virtually unique-His genius lies in his ability to understate themes and situations which cry out for melodramatic treatment" (Lawrence L Langer Washington Post)
"Wholly unsentimental and clean of self-pity, Lustig returns in his novels and stories to the harrowing landscape of his youth, discovering within its brutal boundaries the grim but still achingly recognizable panoply of a last, vast, various neighbourhood of man" (Johanna Kaplan New York Times)
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"Wholly unsentimental and clean of self-pity, Lustig returns in his novels and stories to the harrowing landscape of his youth, discovering within its brutal boundaries the grim but still achingly recognizable panoply of a last, vast, various neighbourhood of man" (Johanna Kaplan New York Times)
ONE OF TWELVE TITLES IN VINTAGE'S A FORMAT WAR PROMOTION'Lustig shows us that in language exists the power that often eludes us in life, the power to record, to accuse, to confess and most important, to renew and transcend' Mark Bautz, Washington Times
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- PublisherSkyhorse Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611451876
- ISBN 13 9781611451870
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Lovely Green Eyes; A Novel
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Book Description Softcover (Photographic). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Photographic paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A novel that explores the decision that 15 year-old Hanka Kaudersova, who has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When she is offered a chance at life, when her parents and brother have been sent to the gas chambers, to work in a German military brothel; ". she chooses a chance at life. Passing for an Ayran, Hanka spends her days in the brothel cold, hungry, fearful and ashamed. She sustained only by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live."  from the rear panel blurb. A little creasing of the book corners with the lower right-hand corner of the front panel starting to curl. A little rubbing of the book edges and panels. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 248, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Holocaust; Poland; WW II; ISBN: 1611451876. ISBN/EAN: 9781611451870. Inventory No: 0129913. Seller Inventory # 0129913
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