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Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kertész, Imre
Wilkinson, Tim

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Series: Vintage International

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ISBN10: 1400078628
ISBN13: 9781400078622
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 1 2004
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is No. It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between those two nos give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust.

As Kertesz's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world he ushers readers into the labyrinth of his consciousness, dramatizing the paradoxes attendant on surviving the catastrophe of Auschwitz. Kaddish for the Unborn Child is a work of staggering power, lit by flashes of perverse wit and fueled by the energy of its wholly original voice.

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