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by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: published-1975, nobel-laureate, anti-semitic, autumn-2013, hardback, historical-fiction, hungary, holocaust-genocide, nazi-related Read from June 27 to October 29, 2013 Foyles, Charing Cross Road. Translated from the Hungarian by Tim WilkinsonOpening: I didn't go to school today. Or...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Foyles, Charing Cross Road. Translated from the Hungarian by Tim WilkinsonOpening: I didn't go to school today. Or rather, I did go, but only to ask my class teacher's permission to take the day off.
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 12 years ago
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/07/review-fatelessness-by-imre-kertesz.html
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 12 years ago
A brilliant book. It does not sentimentalize the holocaust in any way and in a clear matter of fact way reveals the senselessness and incomprehensibility of its evil. Kertesz basically got the Nobel Prize for this book, which is fair enough. Best thing on the holocaust I have ever come across. I...
debnance
debnance rated it 16 years ago
My online bookgroup read this book a few weeks back, but I couldn’t put my hands on a copy in time. Then I received the offer to join a bookring for it at BookCrossing.The setting, a concentration camp during World War II, and the main character, a Jewish boy, have been done many times, but never qu...
Beth's List Love on Booklikes
Beth's List Love on Booklikes rated it 56 years ago
***Spoilers follow, but no more than you would get from the cover of the book.I haven't given a lot of 5 star ratings, but this one definitely earned all 5. It started with the pitch-perfect narrative voice of Gyorgy, a Hungarian Jewish teen, as he faced the deportation of his father to a labor camp...
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