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 ...
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...
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