The Unloved - From the Diary of Perla S.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Perla S. is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl who, while interred in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, becomes a prostitute. Capturing Perla's voice through a series of diary entries, Arnost Lustig shows how she maintains her integrity, honesty, and hope amidst lies and horror. This first paperback edition has been extensively revised and expanded by the author.

"Despite its setting . . . Lustig's latest novel is strangely affirmative in its vision of innocence and courage. Stunning and unsentimental." --New York Times Book Review

"Through the sensibilities of its young Jewish protagonist, this book gives us access to the inner lives of the victims as no history could possibly do." --Washington Post