Fateless
Previously Published as Fatelessness
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- 262 pages
- 10 hours of reading
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Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp. Two months after saying goodbye to his father, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace', but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus and detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of everything he witnesses.
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Fateless, Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- Fateless
- Subtitle
- Previously Published as Fatelessness
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN10
- 0099502526
- ISBN13
- 9780099502524
- Series
- Tags
- Contemporary Fiction, 20th century, World War II, Wars, Holocaust, Nobel prize, Hungary, Hungarian Literature
- Description
- Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp. Two months after saying goodbye to his father, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace', but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus and detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of everything he witnesses.