The House of Returned Echoes

by Arnošt Lustig

Book Overview

Arnost 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118599
• ISBN13: 9780810118591
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"