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Arnost Lustig was born in Prague in 1926. In 1942 he was sent by the Nazis to Terezin and, later, first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. He left Czechoslovakia after the Soviet occupation in 1968 to settle in Washington, DC, where he is Professor of Literature at American University. He is two-time winner of the Jewish National Book Award.
The power of his words lies in their very lack of melodrama... beautiful prose * Time Out * This wonderful book follows the shifting moralities of people caught in a hopeless situation * Good Book Guide *
