Kaddish For An Unborn Child
The first word of this haunting novel is 'no'. It is how the narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks if he has a child and it is how he answered his, now ex-, wife when she told him she wanted a baby. The loss, longing, and regret that haunt the years...
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The first word of this haunting novel is 'no'. It is how the narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks if he has a child and it is how he answered his, now ex-, wife when she told him she wanted a baby. The loss, longing, and regret that haunt the years between those two 'no's' give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertész's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781407053424 (1407053426)
Publish date: September 2nd 2010
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
20th Century,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
Roman,
World War II,
Nobel Prize,
Holocaust,
Hungarian Literature
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 22 November 2013 The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. The narrating protagonist writes his Kaddish for an Unborn Child or to be precise for a son or daughter who could have been, but never even was conceived because he always ...
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 22 November 2013 The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. The narrating protagonist writes his Kaddish for an Unborn Child or to be precise for a son or daughter who could have been, but never even was conceived because he always ...
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