Fatelessness - a novel (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed)

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You are no Jew." In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness" "is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	August 2004
Authors:	Imre Kertesz
Translators:	Tim Wilkinson
Dimensions:	202 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	262
Edition:	1st Vintage International ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-7863-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4000-7863-6
Barcode:	9781400078639

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