Lovely Green Eyes

Description: After witnessing the suicide of her father and the murder of her mother and brother upon their arrival in Auschwitz, fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova is forced to choose between working in a German military brothel on the eastern front or death.

Review Quotes: "A moving act of absolution . . . . This strong novel about a girl who is debased but never destroyed pushes the reader to a new level of understanding of the things people do--and the things that are done to them."--Washington Post Book World

"Absolutely incendiary reading, frightening and compelling in its authority . . .
appeals by its feather-light touch." --Review of Contemporary Fiction

"Lovely Green Eyes could be described in the words of Mr. Kertesz's Nobel citation, which praised 'writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.'. . . A work of extraordinary delicacy."--Washington Times