num_pages: 208
description: In Nazi-occupied Prague, ex-bank clerk Josef Roubick discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. When he begins to observe his new, increasingly skewed, and macabre environment with resigned detachment, his life becomes centered on survival and on the surprisingly small things he clings to in order to persevere.
language: English
title: Life with a Star
titlecomplete: Life with a Star
genres: Fiction, War, School, Jewish, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 674
series: Jewish Lives
publisher: Northwestern University Press