The house of returned echoes / Arnošt Lustig ; translated from the Czech by Josef Lustig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lustig, Arnošt.

Series:

Jewish lives

Standardized Title:

Dům vrácené ozvěny. English

Language:

Czech

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 311 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Arnost Lustig's fiction has always been too close to the facts for comfort. In The House of Returned Echoes, he pays tribute to the life of his father, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. In Prague in the difficult time between the wars, a man fights to keep his family and his business alive despite anti-Semitism and economic hardship. Emil Ludvig has always relied on the simple rules of his family and the basic laws of civilization to counteract his misfortunes, and, being a decent man himself, he refuses to believe that the Nazi threats will be carried out. Yet, he also becomes a victim of the camps, and his story resonates with both Lustig's personal experiences and the shared memories of the Holocaust.

Contents:

Family 3

The Buying of Time 67

Hope 97

The Echo 241.

Notes:

A novel.

ISBN:

0810118580

0810118599

OCLC:

45958453