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  Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil

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  The third Daunt Books publication is a deeply moving novel by a remarkable yet neglected chronicler of the Holocaust. Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation of Prague. This is the story of the struggle to survive in the labyrinthine Nazi regime, and the courage required to retain hope and humanity. As Philip Roth - recent recipient of the 2011 Man Booker International Prize - writes in his introduction to this edition: 'Weil writes about savagery and pain with a brevity that in itself seems the fiercest commentary that can be made on the worst that life has to offer.'

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  Life With A Star by Jiri Weil

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  The second of Jiri Weil's novels to be published by Daunt Books, Life With A Star can be read almost as a companion novel to Mendelssohn is on the Roof, a biting satire of the bureaucratic machinery of tyranny. In Life With A Star we are exposed to the mind-numbing tedium of terror. Josef Roubicek, a former bank clerk, struggles against the daily impossibilities of life under a regime which has rendered him unemployed and undesirable. Like the resistance mounted in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin, the steps taken to undermine the stranglehold of the system are tiny but not insignificant, and heroism is distilled to the capacity to hope when all hope is lost. This is a quiet, haunting novel, with the power to transfix and astonish.