Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Name: Kaddish for an Unborn Child
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ISBN: 9781400078622

ISBN-10: 1400078628

ISBN-13: 9781400078622

Edition: 2004

Authors: Imre Kertï¿½sz, Tim Wilkinson

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English