| Life with a Star Contributor(s): Weil, Jiri (Author), Klimova, Rita (Translator), Roth, Philip (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0810116855 ISBN-13: 9780810116856 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98031022 |
| Series: Jewish Lives |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.51" W x 8.75" (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Nazi-occupied Prague, ex-bank clerk Josef Roubick discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. When he begins to observe his new, increasingly skewed, and macabre environment with resigned detachment, his life becomes centered on survival and on the surprisingly small things he clings to in order to persevere. |