Kaddish for a Child Not Born - Softcover

Imre Kertesz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810111616 ISBN 13: 9780810111615

Publisher: Northwestern University Press / Hydra Books, 1997

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Imre Kertesz's mesmerizing novel is a tale of identity and memory - the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust. The story unfolds at a writers retreat as the narrator, a survivor of the Holocaust, explains to a friend that he cannot bring a child into a world where the Holocaust occurred and could occur again. In an intricate narrative, we learn of the narrator's myriad disappointments: his unsuccessful literary career, his failed marriage, his ex-wife's new family and children - children that could have been his own. Kaddish for a Child Not Born is a deeply introspective, poetic yet unsentimental work.

About the Author:

Imre Kertesz is the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Hungary in 1929, he is one of the country's most successful postwar writers. Imprisoned in Auschwitz as a youth, Kertesz worked as a journalist and wrote musical plays to support himself before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He is the author of Looking for a Clue, Detective Story, The British Flag, and Gallery-Diary 1961-1991.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press / Hydra Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0810111616
• ISBN 13: 9780810111615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 95