by Imre Kertész
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...
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.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/07/review-fatelessness-by-imre-kertesz.html
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...
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...
***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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