Kaddish for an Unborn Child
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is No. It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between those two nos give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world he ushers readers into the labyrinth of his consciousness, dramatizing the paradoxes atten…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-42649-9
- EAN: 9780307426499
- Produktnummer: 36547647
- Verlag: Vintage
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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