num_pages: 173
description: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for FictionPerla S. is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl who, while interred in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, becomes a prostitute. Capturing Perla's voice through a series of diary entries, Arnost Lustig shows how she maintains her integrity, honesty, and hope amidst lies and horror. This first paperback edition has been extensively revised and expanded by the author.
language: English
title: The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S.
titlecomplete: The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (Jewish Lives)
genres: Fiction, War, Jewish, Czech Literature, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 113
publisher: Northwestern University Press