Imre Kertész

a novel

Fatelessness

Kaddish for an Unborn Child

The suicide of a an acclaimed Hungarian writer who was born and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp forces his colleages and friends to confront their own identity, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Communist rule as they desperately try to understand their friend's death, in a novel by the 2002 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Liquidation

Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness (Vintage, 2004) and Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Vintage, 2004), describing the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Life under the regime is depicted as a continuation of the camp. Forced into the army, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. Kafka-like and surprisingly funny, Fiasco confronts the Communist takeover of Hungary with unrelenting pessimistic clarity.

Fiasco

A middle-aged writer and Holocaust survivor explains to a friend why he cannot bring a child into a world that allows such horrors as the Holocaust. Previously published as Kaddish for a Child Not Born. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

An unnamed narrator recounts his sighting of the Union Jack--the British flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army, in a novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Pathseeker. Original.

The Union Jack

Eva Klein

Mannen utan öde

İlknur İgan

Onbepaald door het lot. - Een vijftienjarige joodse jongen vertelt hoe hij in de Tweede Wereldoorlog twee concentratiekampen overleefde.

roman

Kadersizlik

The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable tot

Detective Story

"Imre Kertész, superviviente de Auschwitz que vivió el stalinismo y el kadarismo en Hungría, reflexiona--en un viaje existencial a través de varias ciudades europeas--acerca de las transformaciones que necesariamente afectan a las fibras más profundas del individuo."--P. [4] of cover.

crónica del cambio

Yo, otro

Sem destino

Tim Wilkinson

Zoltán Hafner

The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview--with himself Dossier K. is Imre Kertész's response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature--an attempt to set the record straight. The result is an extraordinary self-portrait, in which Kertész interrogates himself about the course of his own remarkable life, moving from memories of his childhood in Budapest, his imprisonment in Nazi death camps and the forged record that saved his life, his experiences as a censored journalist in postwar Hungary under successive totalitarian communist regimes, and his eventual turn to fiction, culminating in the novels--such as Fatelessness, Fiasco, and Kaddish for an Unborn Child--that have established him as one of the most powerful, unsentimental, and imaginatively daring writers of our time. In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kertész continues to delve into the questions that have long occupied him: the legacy of the Holocaust, the distinctions drawn between fiction and reality, and what he calls "that wonderful burden of being responsible for oneself." From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dossier K.

crónica de uma metamorfose

Um outro

Kertess

Polisiye Bir Oyku

The Holocaust as culture

Kaddisch für ein nicht geborenes Kind.

A middle-aged writer and Holocaust survivor explains to a friend why he cannot bring a child into a world that allows such horrors as the Holocaust

Imre Kertész

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