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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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Contemporary | Fiction
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 doesnΓ―ΒΏΒ½t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, Γ―ΒΏΒ½You are no Jew.Γ―ΒΏΒ½ In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider. The genius of Imre KerteszΓ―ΒΏΒ½s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is GeorgΓ―ΒΏΒ½s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesΓ―ΒΏΒ½or 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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