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She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she has just been transported with her family from Terezin to Auschwitz. In short order, her father commits suicide, and her mother and younger brother are dispatched to the gas chambers, but 15 year old Hanka Kaudersova is still alive. Faced with the choice of certain death in the camp or working in a German military brothel on the eastern front, she chooses a chance at life. Passing as an Aryan, Hanka's days in the brothel are full of cold and hunger, fear and shame. She is sustained by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live. This devastatingly beautiful novel soars beyond the nightmare to leave the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.
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Deine grünen Augen, Arnošt Lustig, Silvia Morawetz
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Deine grünen Augen
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Arnošt Lustig, Silvia Morawetz
- Publisher
- Berlin Verlag
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 285
- ISBN10
- 3827005760
- ISBN13
- 9783827005762
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Czech Literature, Humor, Wars, World War II, Jews, Holocaust, Prostitution, Eastern Front (World War II), Women in World War II
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she has just been transported with her family from Terezin to Auschwitz. In short order, her father commits suicide, and her mother and younger brother are dispatched to the gas chambers, but 15 year old Hanka Kaudersova is still alive. Faced with the choice of certain death in the camp or working in a German military brothel on the eastern front, she chooses a chance at life. Passing as an Aryan, Hanka's days in the brothel are full of cold and hunger, fear and shame. She is sustained by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live. This devastatingly beautiful novel soars beyond the nightmare to leave the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.