Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Lovely Green eyes by Arnost Lustig



(256pages)


Image hosted by Photobucket.comFifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, Hanka is faced with a choice: follow her family to the gas chamber, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. Choosing life, she fights cold, hunger, fear and shame.

This is a very cruel sad and depressing book. It shows how human spirit can triumph over harsh adversity, and serves as a reminder to everyone of the awful things that people are capable of doing and also enduring.I would have given more stars had it not been so miserable!

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