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Night and Hope, EPUB eBook

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First published in 1962, Night and Hope is a collection of interrelated short stories by a young Czech writer who was a boy in the Terezin concentration camp near Prague during the war. They have already been received with great acclaim abroad and they now make their appearance for the first time in this country. They reveal what it was like to live in a sealed town which was in fact a reception station for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. A guard thrashes a poor old woman on the counter of her little shop and each are curiously resigned to their roles of giving and receiving degradation. Little boys play in the streets and are quietly regretful that they won't grow up and wear fine clothes. A guard's wife and her coffee-party friends stroll round the ghetto to collect anything that catches their eye-a wedding-ring, pathetic clothes....

Arnost Lustig's stories are a new and vivid focus on this fearful tragedy as it affected the private individual. They are written with restraint yet nothing is glossed, and they take their place amongst the very best writing to have come out of the shambles of Hitler's 'Jewish Question'.

"Arnost Lustig has succeeded in putting truth into a poem. Nothing in art could mean more than that. His style is sober and modern, his sentence carries all attributes of that which connects prose with poetry and makes it obvious how slight and unperceivable the borderlines between genres."-L. Askenazy, Literarni Noviny (Prague).

"Each tale has a genuine unity of its own and is a small work of art in its own right. No one reading them could ever feel that they were only stories."-The Times Literary Supplement (London).

"No writer in Europe, in the East or in the West, has expressed as much truth about the time of the holocaust as Arnost Lustig."-Maariv (Tel Aviv).

"Outstanding stories."-The Bookman, London

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