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Atmosféra na sklonku války je v povídce vykreslená prostřednictvím sond do duší nacistických velitelů, obyčejných německých vojáků, mladého muže mstící ho se za smrt židovské dívky. Matky, chránící svou dceru před muži, zatím co ona sní své neslušné sny o lásce a milování. Novela Arnošta Lustiga vychází v unikátním česko-hebrejsko-anglickém vydání. Symbolicky tak představuje tři místa, kde autor našel během svého života domov.

Nakladatelství Franze Kafky vydává k životnímu jubileu spisovatele Arnošta Lustiga dlouholetého čestného presidenta Společnosti Franze Kafky, knížku úvah o literatuře a Franzi Kafkovi, doplněnou povídkou Štěpán a Anna ve třech jazycích – česky, anglicky a francouzsky. Knihu uvádí vzpomínka Lenky Reinerové, spisovatelky s podobným životním osudem.

It is September 1944; the war is going badly for the Germans, and they are in a hurry to complete their 'final solution'. Compromises are being made on all sides, conditions are unspeakable, rumours are rife, but nothing definite is known of the Nazis' intentions. On the outskirts of a concentration camp in northern Bohemia three people - two eighteen-year-old men and a desperately lost young woman, Leah - are thrown together, sharing their precarious existence in an attic room. While the world disintegrates around them their relationships are charged with passion, their days filled with erotic and spiritual attraction. Caught in the web of their relationships, their futures are uncertain and any choices they have left to make will be made in the face of almost certain death...

Kniha fotografií Stanislava Tůmy. Texty napsali Arnošt Lustig a Jiří David.

"Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. hen 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 as 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. ovely 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."

Three novellas about resisting brutality, and the stupidity of dehumanizing power: a German prostitute assigned to Prague; a girl in a Nazi home for orphans; and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theatre.

The nine stories in this book are based on Lustig's own experiences in ghettos and concentration camps during World War II.

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