Kaddish for an unborn child / Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kertész, Imre, 1929-2016.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wilkinson, Tim.

Standardized Title:

Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Fiction.

Holocaust survivors.

Jews.

Hungary.

Jews--Hungary--Fiction.

Hungary--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

120 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

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 "no"s 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 attendant on surviving the catastrophe of Auschwitz. Kaddish for the Unborn Child is a work of staggering power, lit by flashes of perverse wit and fueled by the energy of its wholly original voice. Translated by Tim Wilkinson

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has post-it with ms. note on back inside cover.

ISBN:

1400078628

OCLC:

56329409