The bitter smell of almonds
Subtitle: selected fiction
By: Arnošt Lustig.
Series: Jewish lives
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
Subjects: Lustig, Arnošt -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "The Bitter Smell of Almonds brings together for the first time Arnost Lustig's short-story collection Street of Lost Brothers, the novel Dita Saxova, and the novellas of Indecent Dreams. The works in this omnibus edition reverberate with the torments of suffering and survival, loss and contradiction.

Lustig's themes are as old and as universal as humankind's search for the meaning of existence, and his characters, often confronted with people or situations they cannot comprehend, attempt to come to terms with the unthinkable and with life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published by Northwestern Press as 3 separate works: Street of lost brothers (1990), Indecent dreams (1998) and Dita Saxova (1993).