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Language Hungarian Published in English 1999 Published in english 1999 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1990 Originally published 1990 Country Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért Translator Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson Similar Imre Kertész books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kaddish for an unborn child
Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Hungarian: Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért) is a novel by Imre Kertész, first published in 1990 (ISBN 0-8101-1161-6).
Contents
The novel deals with the struggles of a Holocaust survivor after the war, explaining to a friend why he cannot bring a child into a world that could allow such atrocities to happen. The book also deals with the narrator's failed marriage, his unsuccessful literary career, and the concept of his Jewishness.
Kertész won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
English translations
References
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