About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hydra Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780810110496ISBN:0810110490
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hydra Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780810110496ISBN:0810110490
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 191 p. Audience: General/trade. Cover and pages have very slight shelf wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780810110243ISBN:0810110245
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hydra Books
Date Published: 1996-10-21
ISBN-13:9780810110496ISBN:0810110490
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, U. S
Date Published: 21/11/1996
ISBN-13:9780810110496ISBN:0810110490
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Description: Paperback Book is in Good condition. Clean cover, clean pages-no text markings. Some minor wear to cover edges. We ship with bar coded label for faster delivery! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780099502524ISBN:0099502526
Description: New. Fourteen-year-old Gyuri's father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assign... read more
"Extremely creepy. It sent chills up my spine. It's terrifying enough to read about Georg getting on a train and getting to a concentration camp and expecting to be sent to a new work place. And all the talk of the prisoners and seeing the people being split into two groups was bad enough. What made the experience worse was that I had visited a concentration camp when I went to Germany. It really brought the history alive and the book that much more alive. It's really a slap in the face, a need slap, to be reminded what happened in history and what people went through. The book got confusing after he went into the hospital. It seemed like he wasn't being feed and that the hospital was a place to die, but I was never sure about that. And the liberation came on very suddenly, but didn't seem to affect the hospital too much until they were being sent on trains back to Hungary. It seemed anti-climatic after everything that had happened. I could have done without the pages long paragraphs."
"I have read many stories about the Holocaust. Each has its own voice, and all are important in their own way. I particularly enjoyed this one because it, more than any I've read, causes us to ask how this could have happened with no one knowing about it. The narrator is arrested when the war is almost over. At one point he questions why his teachers never talked about the war. Now that he's in the camp, he thinks it would have been valuable to know something about it. I also like the simplicity and naivete of the narrator. At first, he sees the convicts around him and assumes they are there for being criminals. He thinks they are different from he, who is there simply to work. By using the voice of a child, the author allows us to see the story from two points of view at once.
My only disappointment is that the back of the book made it sound like the majority of the story would take place after the war and be about how he assimilates to life after the concentration camp. That is a story I would be very interested to read. Unfortunately, it is only in the last few pages that we hear that."
"I am utterly thankful of this eerily removed account of a young man's journey through the concentration camps. I haven't read too many first account books, and although this one was fictionalized, the narrative wasn't tinged with hate or cruelty, which allowed for an even more intense entry into the mechanized destruction put into place by the Nazi's, as well as the strange nature of humanity that allowed this atrocity to ever happen. I recommend this book heartily to anyone that doesn't want to simply condemn the camps, but understand the twisted rational of why they worked, and want an almost soundless, detatched view of camp life without the cinematic impression that have been culturally imprinted upon us with movies like Schindler's List."
"I really wanted to like this book and to find it wonderful. I did not. This could be because of the translation, the book was originally written in Hungarian. The narrator is interesting, well drawn and believable. The story is carefully told, with each chapter building on each other. The main character, a 14 year old Hungarian who is an ethnic, although not religious Jew, is moved through the German forced labor and concentration camp system at the end of WWII. We are introduced to each horror and event as the narrator experiences it. Finally, we are with him when he is liberated and returns home to indifference, hostility, and the need to move on while unable to let go of the experiences he had had.
This book provides a view of the concentration camps that includes moments of friendship, joy and even beauty in the midst of inhumanity and horror. It also in the end provides an insight into the need of survivors to bear witness on the events that they experienced. To remember and tell others, rather than to walk away, forget and move on."
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