Arnošt Lustig Libri

Hanka ha capelli ramati e occhi verdi. Il giorno in cui arriva a Auschwitz-Birkenau con i genitori e il fratello, a lei tocca in sorte la corsia di sinistra e sopravvive. Hanka è ebrea, ha 15 anni, ma finge di essere diciottenne e ariana. Ora si chiama Bambola ed è una delle prostitute più giovani del bordello Nr. 232 Ost sul fronte orientale. Sulla pancia porta tatuata la parola Feldhure, puttana da campo. Inizia così il lungo calvario di Hanka che combatte il freddo e la fame, la paura e la vergogna, sostenuta dal desiderio indomito di sopravvivere, costi quel che costi, e da una fiducia che non verrà mai meno. Lustig è uno dei più importanti esponenti della letteratura ceca, un protagonista del Novecento. Nei suoi occhi verdi è un romanzo straordinario - tradotto in numerose lingue - che porta il lettore nel mondo di Hanka, lo fa combattere con lei, partecipe di un profondo senso della speranza e della trascendenza.

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.

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.

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

During the Second World War, it was not unusual for “death trains” to cross Europe loaded with thousands of starving Jews. Having spent his teenage years in concentration camps, Arnost Lustig found himself on one of these transports in 1945, on the way to his own death. Along with a close friend, who was also a teenager, he made an incredibly daring escape. This is the story of that escape, and the weeks that the two boys spent in the dark forests of Germany trying to survive against hunger and cold, to avoid capture by the Germans, and to return to their native Prague. On the psychological plane, the book explores the subconscious minds of the two protagonists as they experience extreme fear, starvation, and physical exhaustion in their desperate flight toward freedom. The escape journey—undertaken against incredible odds—is described in such careful detail that the reader enters into the experience almost without realizing that he has slipped into a new kind of reality, and the frequent flashbacks to life in the concentration camps and ghettos give the entire book an unforgettable cinematic quality.

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

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.

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...