The Luck of the Devil: From Hell to Happiness

Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled into Hungary to escape deportation. 

In The Luck of the Devil, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy’s obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.