The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (Jewish Lives)

Despite its setting--a Nazi concentration camp--Arnost Lustig's latest novel is strangely affirmative in its vision of innocence and courage....The perspective of a 17-year-old is convincing whenever Mr. Lustig writes about Perla's experiences and feelings, but occasionally, when Perla philosophizes about the nature of life and death, her voice loses that authenticity and sounds considerably older. Mr. Lustig, the survivor of three concentration camps, has written a stunning and unsentimental novel, celebrating moments of normality amid corruption and death."Arnost Lustig is the author of 'The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (Jewish Lives)', published 1996 under ISBN 9780810113473 and ISBN 0810113473.