The Washington Post, July 21st, 2002
LOVELY GREEN EYES By Arnost Lustig Arcade. 248 pp. $24.95 Certain stories won't stay told. The material is so powerful that it surfaces again and again, compelling the writer to process it in fresh ways, casting and recasting the past in an attempt to comprehend it. This seems to be the case with Czech-born Arnost Lustig, whose novels and short fiction center on lives spun out in the shadow of Nazi concentration camps. A survivor who spent his boyhood in Theresienstadt and came of age at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Lustig returns in Lovely Green Eyes to the wartime story of the Jewish girl who b...
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