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Fateless, December 2004
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Fateless is 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.
Vintage
December 2004
272 pages
ISBN: 1400078636
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Fiction | Contemporary
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 the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains
an outsider. The genius of Imre Kertesz�s unblinking novel lies in its
refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least
of which is Georg�s dogmatic insistence on making sense of
what he witnesses�or pretending that what he witnesses makes
sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for
its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a
masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel,
and Tadeusz Borowski.
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