Lovely Green Eyes

Name: Lovely Green Eyes
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Arnost Lustig
ISBN: 9781543606546

Author: Arnost Lustig

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/04/2017

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

“A moving act of absolution.... This strong novel about a girl who is debased but never destroyed pushes the reader to a new level of understanding of the things people do—and the things that are done to them.” —Washington Post Book WorldShe has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she has just been transported with her family from Terezín to Auschwitz. In short order, her father commits suicide, and her mother and younger brother are dispatched to the gas chambers, but fifteen-year-old Hanka Kauderzová is still alive. Faced with the choice of certain death in the camp or working in a German military brothel, she chooses a chance at life. Passing for an Aryan, Hanka spends her days in the brothel cold, hungry, fearful, and ashamed. She is sustained only by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live.This devastatingly beautiful novel explores and delineates the impossible choices one sometimes has to make in life, when the fabric of the world is rent asunder. Soaring beyond the nightmare, it leaves the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

Arnos Lustig was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald who in after the war who would be voice of conscience all his life, reigning from the Czech Communist Party in 1967 in protest at Czechoslovakia breaking ties with Israel and persecuting Jews in that country and leaving Czechoslovakia after the......more

Goodreads review by Alan

“Beauty is beyond morality. Beyond good and evil. Beauty is Germany, the Waffen-SS, the Einsatzgruppen, the Jagdkommandos. The bomb that drops on an inhabited site. A town consumed by flames. Anything that dissolves into nothing. A captured enemy division turned into ashes like those vermin at Ausch......more

Goodreads review by Kat

Skinny is fifteen years old, Jewish and alone in Auschwitz. When faced with a decision between the gas chambers and working in a brothel, she chooses to hide her Jewishness and becomes a prostitute, servicing upwards of twelve soldiers each and every day. Told in flashes of life before Auschwitz and......more

Goodreads review by Ellie

“Lovely Green Eyes” is a novel that tells a story of Hanka, a Jewish inmate in Auschwitz who passes herself for an Aryan to work in a field brothel for the troops. To be completely honest, I have mixed feelings about this particular story. On one hand, it’s definitely one of those stories that need......more