ID: 509
Waiting for Leah.
LUSTIG, Arnost

Category: First Edition

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, The Harvill Press. 2004.

Description: Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. First UK edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. On the outskirts of Terezin, the concentration camp created by the Nazis in northern Bohemia as a staging post for the transport of Jews to Poland, a 17 year old boy encounters Vili Feld, a pre-war acquaintance and the seducer of the teenager's former girlfriend. It is September 1944; the war is going badly for the Germans, and they are in a hurry to complete their "final solution". Compromises are being made on all sides, conditions are unspeakable, rumours are rife, but nothing definite is known of the Nazis' intentions. Or perhaps what is known is deliberately not being believed. Fine in fine dust jacket.

ISBN:1 84343 147 5

Price £12.99