Life with a Star

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.

About the author

Jiri Weil was a major Czech writer in the 1930s but is most widely known today of his two postwar works LIFE WITH A STAR and MENDELSOHN 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Weil, Jiri Weil
• Assisted by: Rita Klimova (Translation), Roslyn Schloss (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780810116856
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1685-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Jewish Lives (Paperback); Jewish Lives
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature