Fateless is the first English translation of a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war.
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You are no Jew." In ...
Imre Kertesz's mesmerizing novel is a tale of identity and memory -- the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust. The story unfolds at a writer's retreat as the narrator, a middle-aged survivor of the Holocaust, tries to explain to a friend that he cannot bring a child into a world where the ...
A masterly new novel from the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature: the story of a Hungarian writer whose death forces his circle of friends to confront their own terrible moment in history. Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism . B.–a writer of high literary reputation whose birth and survival in Auschwitz defied all ...
Nobel Laureate Kertesz plunges readers into a story told from a killers perspective as Antonio Martens recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a father and son who are opposed to the current regime.
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The ...
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history ...." "Kertesz's work is a profound meditation on the great and enduring themes of love, death and the problem of evil, although for Kertesz, it's not evil that is the problem but good. ...
A falta de algo mejor, he hojeado mis diarios. Mi vida es una novela peculiar. Hay una indudable coherencia. Por otra parte, si bien estos apuntes revelan una forma de vida bastante digna de atencin en medio del derrumbamiento centroeuropeo, precisamente las circunstancias centroeuropeas lo inutilizan totalmente como documento de una forma de vida ...
** NOBEL LAUREATE 2002** A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) that narrates the unimaginable life of Bi, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. Bi commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keserz, ...
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