num_pages: 358
description: Dita Saxova is an eighteen-year-old concentration camp survivor trying to start a new life in postwar Prague. Living in a special hostel for orphans from the camps, too old to be cared for parentally, too young to be fully adult, too soaked in reality to harbor many illusions, Dita struggles to reconcile struggles to reconcile her unfathomable past with her enigmatic future. First published in Czech in 1962, then in English in 1979, Dita Saxova confirms Arnost Lustig's place as one of the masterful storytellers of the Holocaust period.
language: English
title: Dita Saxova
titlecomplete: Dita Saxova
genres: Fiction, War, Jewish, School, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, Holocaust
ratings_count: 128
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Children's Literature
publisher: Northwestern University Press