by Arnost Lustig
translated by Josef Lustig
Northwestern University Press, 2001
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2070-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1858-4 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1859-1
Library of Congress Classification PG5038.L85D8613 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.86354

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Arnošt Lustig's fiction has always been too close to the facts for comfort. In The House of Returned Echoes, he pays tribute to the life of his father, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. In Prague in the difficult time between the wars, a man fights to keep his family and his business alive despite anti-Semitism and economic hardship. Emil Ludvig has always relied on the simple rules of his family and the basic laws of civilization to counteract his misfortunes, and being a decent man himself, he refuses to believe that the Nazi threats will be carried out. Yet, he also becomes a victim of the camps, and his story resonates with both Lustig's personal experiences and the shared memories of the Holocaust.


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