A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner
IMRE KERT SZ was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned first in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing FATELESSNESS, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
Praise for Imre Kertész
"...An enormous effort to understand and find a language for what
the Holocaust says about the human condition."
—George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement
"...Searching and visionary beyond the usual parameters."
—Sven Birkets, Bookforum
"In explaining something of the weight and importance of Kertesz's
subjects and creative achievements, it is hard to convey
simultaneously the deftness and vivacity of his writing....There is
something quintessentially youthful and life-affirming in this
writer's sensibility..."
—Ruth Scurr, The Nation
“Kertész's work is a profound meditation on the great and enduring
themes of love, death and the problem of evil, although for
Kertész, it's not evil that is the problem but good.”
—John Banville, author of The Sea
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