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Life with a Star Paperback - 1998

by Jiri Weil; Rita Klimova (Translator); Preface by Philip Roth

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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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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.

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  • Title Life with a Star
  • Author Jiri Weil; Rita Klimova (Translator); Preface by Philip Roth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998-11
  • ISBN 9780810116856 / 0810116855
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 5.51 x 0.67 in (22.23 x 14.00 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98031022
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 02/28/1999, Page 24

About the author

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.
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