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Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel
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About The Book
Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle, and her fierce, burning desire for life. Lovely Green Eyes explores the compromises and sacrifices that an individual may make in order to survive, the way a woman can retain her identity in the face of appalling trauma, and the value of human life itself. This is a remarkable novel, which soars beyond nightmare, leaving the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.
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Product Details
- Publisher: Arcade (October 28, 2011)
- Length: 999 pages
- ISBN13: 9781628722093
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A moving act of absolution . . . . This strong novel about a girl who is debased but never destroyed pushes the reader to a new level of understanding of the things people doand the things that are done to them.”Washington Post Book World
Absolutely incendiary reading, frightening and compelling in its authority . . .
appeals by its feather-light touch.” Review of Contemporary Fiction
Lovely Green Eyes could be described in the words of Mr. Kertesz’s Nobel citation, which praised writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.’. . . A work of extraordinary delicacy.”Washington Times
A moving act of absolution . . . . This strong novel about a girl who is debased but never destroyed pushes the reader to a new level of understanding of the things people doand the things that are done to them.”Washington Post Book World
Absolutely incendiary reading, frightening and compelling in its authority . . .
appeals by its feather-light touch.” Review of Contemporary Fiction
Lovely Green Eyes could be described in the words of Mr. Kertesz’s Nobel citation, which praised writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.’. . . A work of extraordinary delicacy.”Washington Times
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