A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova by Arnošt Lustig

A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova

Arnošt Lustig

244 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

fiction classics reflective sad medium-paced
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This suspenseful novel centers on twenty wealthy American Jews and the beautiful and frail Katerina who are held at ransom by the German authorities in wartime Italy. Together they must play out a game in which the stakes are their lives. The New...

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sad 50%

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Loveable characters?

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