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Lovely Green Eyes (Panther) (Paperback)

by Arnost Lustig (Author), Ewald Osers (Translator)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: The Harvill Press (21 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860467164
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860467165
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,015,905 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fifteen-year-old Hanka's ginger hair and clear green eyes save her from being deported with her family to Auschwitz. Her Aryan looks disguise the fact that she is Jewish but in order to live she must work in an SS brothel. Hanka fights cold, hunger fear and shame sustained only by the hatred for the men she entertains and a fierce desire for life. A remarkable novel which soars beyond nightmare by an award-winning author and concentration camp survivor.


Johanna Kaplan, New York Times

‘Wholly unsentimental and clean of self-pity, Lustig returns in his novels and stories to the harrowing landscape of his youth...' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful writing, 4 Sep 2006
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This is the story of Hanka, a 15 year old Jewish girl who loses her whole family in the Holocaust. Her only chance of surviving is to become a whore for the Germans - she chooses to survive. She has to `service' 12 to 15 German soldiers every day. The horror and terror that she feels is bought only too vividly to life by the author's tremendously powerful writing skills, I could actually feel her fear and revulsion. This book shows us just what lengths we will go to in order to survive and teaches us that life is precious- but can be snatched away at any time. This was a harrowing read but one not to be missed.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book., 5 May 2003
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Lovely Green Eyes is the story of a 15 year old Jewish girl who is about to go to the gas chamber but instead she pretends to be an Ayran girl and ends up working in an SS brothel.The book follows her 2 weeks in the brothel,her escape and her attempts to come to terms with what she did afterwards.It`s a sad book and shocking to think that although this is a fictional story alot of what is detailed actually happened.I didn`t find it depressing though and think it is definitely worth reading.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The choice between life and death is a very thin line, 19 Jul 2007
By Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Would you become a whore in order to survive? This is the question that A 15 year old Jewish girl Hanka Kaudersová asks herself when she is given the chance to pass herself off as a gentile in the concentration camp she and her family have been sent too during the last months of the war.

She is lucky to have "lovely green eyes", and reddish hair, she doesn't physically look Jewish and so she has a chance of life and she takes it even though she hates what she has to become in order to survive.

With all her family dead, her mother and younger brother sent straight to the gas chambers, her father choosing to throw himself on the camp's electric fence than to have to live in such terrible conditions, Hanka has no one left to call her own, all she has is her will to live but is it powerful enough to get her through the horrors ahead of her as she learns to ply her trade as a soldier's whore?

With many other girls, all older than she is, no one knows she is only 15 years old, she has pretended to be 18, Hanka or Skinny as she is known as has to service between 12 to 15 German soldiers each day and this she does even though she hates every moment of it.

Her virginity is lost in the brothel, only she knows this, though a German officer asks her with curious detached interest about her first sexual experience which Hanka tells him with equal detachment was "strange". The men she is forced to have sex with she has no feelings for, no passion, no desire, no love, no lust, nothing other than hatred and fear for what she must do in order to see the sun rise the next day.

However Hanka is a survivor, and her friendships with the other girls in the Brothel especially the enigmatic Estelle sustains her each and every dat and she does survive when all those around her perish one by one.

An evocative cruel read that leaves you wanting more even when the last page has been turned.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The real joy division was hell
This book allows you to crawl into the mental space and ultimately into the skin of a young jewish girl trapped within an army brothel. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A crude remminder of human nature
Lustig takes you back to the origins of human nature, through the almost inocent look of those lovely green eyes; Skinny (Hanka Kaudersová) makes you wonder time after time,... Read more
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