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Fateless (Paperback)
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Fateless (Paperback)
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Winner, 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature One of Publishers Weekly's
Fifty Best Books of 1992 Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel
about a Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences in German concentration
camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences
after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in
his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses
the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His
former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his
mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as the
lowest circle of hell. The boy can relate to neither cliche and is
left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone. George's
response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he
tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human
motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a
bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he
maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must
contend with the banality of evil to which he has become
accustomed: when asked why he uses words like naturally,
undeniably, and without question to describe the most horrendous of
experiences, he responds, In the concentration camp it was natural.
Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and
rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that
neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the
heart of his fate: rather, there are only given situations, and
within these, further givens.
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