Life with a star / Jiří Weil ; with a preface by Philip Roth ; translated from the Czech by Ruzena Kovarikova with Roslyn Schloss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weil, Jiří.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Život s hvězdou. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989, c1964.

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.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374187371 :

OCLC:

18291742