Kaddish For An Unborn Child

Condenses a lifetime into a story told in a single night…exhilarating for [its] creative energy * World Literature *Stunning… resembles such other memorably declamatory fictions as Camus’ The Fall and Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground * Kirkus Reviews *While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertész draws us one step closer * Observer *For taking us somewhere no other writer has, Kertész fully deserved his Nobel Prize * Independent *Tim Wilkinson is a seriously good translator…I may have given the impression that this is harrowing, and it is; but it has its moments of great, consoling insight, is about far more than just the Holocaust and in its own haunting way provides comfort for the afflicted – Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *Tim Wilkinson’s translation… is a fine and powerful piece of work. … Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic, this is a phenomenal piece of writing, showing the depth and breadth of the effects of war on its survivors – Nora Mahony * Irish Times *

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.