num_pages: 224
description: Weil based this novel on his experiences hiding from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia in order to avoid the concentration camps. In recommending the book to FSG for translation into English, Philip Roth "I think that the book is, without a doubt, one of the outstanding novels I've read about the fate of a Jew and the Jews under the Nazis. I don't really know of one quite like it."
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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux