Life with a Star

In Nazi-occupied Prague, ex-bank clerk Josef Roubick discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. When he begins to observe his new, increasingly skewed, and macabre environment with resigned detachment, his life becomes centered on survival and on the surprisingly small things he clings to in order to persevere.

"This book is, without a doubt, one of the outstanding novels I've read about the fate of a Jew under the Nazis. I don't know of another like it." --Philip Roth

"One of the most powerful works to emerge from the Holocaust; it is a fierce and necessary work of art." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times