The Devil's Own Luck by Ladislav Grosman
Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled into Hungary to escape deportation.
In The Devil's Own Luck, readers experience the horrors of war and the Holocaust through the lens of the young boy's obsessive reading of pulp fiction, imposing a layer of adventure on the bleak landscape of his experience. This simultaneously tragic, humorous, and poetic novel by Ladislav Grosman was published posthumously.
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Saturnin
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The Cremator
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Rambling On
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Ear
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The Pied Piper
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Of Mice and Mooshaber
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The Well at Morning
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Rusalka
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Behind the Lines
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Crossroads of Imagination
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We Were a Handful
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Unsound Siblings
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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From Laughter to Forgetting
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Writing Underground
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Summer of Caprice
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The Lesser Histories
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Tales of the Prague Ghetto
Ladislav Grosman (1921–1981) was a Slovak Jewish novelist and screenwriter. During World War II, he was sent to a forced labor camp, and much of his family perished. After the war, he studied in Prague and worked as an editor and lecturer. He adapted his own prose into the Academy Award–winning film The Shop on Main Street (1965) and later worked at Barrandov Film Studio. Following his emigration to Israel in 1968, he taught Slavic literature and creative writing in Tel Aviv. David Short is an acclaimed translator of numerous books from Czech and Slovak to English.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9788024662794 |
| ISBN 10 | 8024662795 |
| Title | The Devil's Own Luck |
| Author | Ladislav Grosman |
| Series | Modern Czech Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic |
| Year published | 2026-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |