Summary
The powerful story of an adolescent’s experience of Auschwitz by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, Imre Kertesz.
“While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer” - Observer
Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business - his final act before being sent to a labour camp. Two months late…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784872156 |
| Author: | Imre Kertesz |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Moving and numbing…a very great novel - Irish Times
Moving and numbing…a very great novel - Irish TimesRemarkable…an original and chilling quality -New York Review of Books[T]his work…ought to stand beside Primo Levi’s If This is a Man - The TimesExtraordinary - ObserverShould be savoured slowly … Only through exploring its subtlety and detail will the reader come to appreciate such an ornate and honest testimony to the human spirit * Washington Times *A masterly, subtle and constantly surprising novel * Sunday Times *While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality for those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer – Susannah Steven * Observer, Books of the Week *[The] crisp new translation still has an extraordinary power to shock – Elena Seymenliyska * Guardian *
About The Author
Imre Kertesz
Imre Kertesz was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertesz died in Budapest in March 2016.
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