Life with a Star by Jiří Weil

Life with a Star

Jiří Weil with Rita Klimova, Roslyn Schloss

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fiction historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Life with a Star is perfect for readers who want an exquisitely quiet, slow-burn portrait of an ordinary man watching the familiar city around him turn alien and forbidden, inviting them to inhabit the narrowing daily choices and smallest acts of persistence that become a life when everything else has been stripped away.

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In Nazi-occupied Prague, ex-bank clerk Josef Roubick discovers that the prosaic world he has always inhabited is suddenly off-limits to him because he is a Jew. When he begins to observe his new, increasingly skewed, and macabre environment with r...

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Community Reviews

4.17
based on 63 reviews

Moods

challenging: 66%

dark: 66%

emotional: 66%

sad: 66%

adventurous: 33%

hopeful: 33%

informative: 33%

reflective: 33%

tense: 33%


Pace

100% of readers chose medium
medium

Plot or character driven?

33% of readers chose A mix
66% of readers chose Character
A mix
Character

Strong character development?

66% of readers chose Yes
33% of readers chose No
Yes
No

Loveable characters?

100% of readers chose Yes
Yes

Diverse cast of characters?

50% of readers chose No
50% of readers chose N/A
No
N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus?

100% of readers chose No
No

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