Fateless by Imre Kertesz
Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew witnesses his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - before being sent to a labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace', but within a fortnight he is pulled off a bus and detained. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz.
Moving and numbing..a very great novel - Irish Times
Remarkable...an original and chilling quality -New York Review of Books
[T]his work...ought to stand beside Primo Levi's If This is a Man - The Times
Extraordinary - Observer
Should be savoured slowly . . . Only through exploring its subtlety and detail will the reader come to appreciate such an ornate and honest testimony to the human spirit * Washington Times *
Remarkable...an original and chilling quality -New York Review of Books
[T]his work...ought to stand beside Primo Levi's If This is a Man - The Times
Extraordinary - Observer
Should be savoured slowly . . . Only through exploring its subtlety and detail will the reader come to appreciate such an ornate and honest testimony to the human spirit * Washington Times *
Imre Kertész was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertész died in Budapest in March 2016
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784872151 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784872156 |
| Title | Fateless |
| Author | Imre Kertesz |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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