Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled into Hungary to escape deportation.
In The Devil's Own Luck, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy's obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.
| ISBN: | 9788024662794 |
| Publication date: | 4th November 2026 |
| Author: | Ladislav Grosman |
| Publisher: | Karolinum an imprint of Karolinum Press, Charles University |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 234 pages |
| Series: | Modern Czech Classics |
| Genres: |
Second World War fiction Historical Fiction Religious and spiritual fiction |
Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled into Hungary to escape deportation. In The Devil's Own Luck, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy's obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.
The Devil's Own Luck features in the following genres: Second World War fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction
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The Devil's Own Luck was written by Ladislav Grosman and published by Karolinum an imprint of Karolinum Press, Charles University
The Devil's Own Luck has 234 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Czech Classics series
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