Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781784872175
Published: October 2017
Page Extent: 144
Format: Paperback
RRP 250.00

Kaddish For An Unborn Child

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'A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between these two 'No!'s give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertész's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.

About the Author

Imre Kertesz

Imre Kertesz

Imre Kertész was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertész died in Budapest in March 2016

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Tim Wilkinson

Tim Wilkinson

Tim Wilkinson was born in England in 1947 and first began translating from Hungarian after living and working in Budapest during the early 1970s. He has translated a number of works of history, including Éva H. Balázs’s Hungary and the Habsburgs 1765–1800, Domokos Kosary’s Hungary and International Politics in 1848–1849, and Viktor Karády’s The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era, as well as literary works by many contemporary Hungarian prose writers.

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