Fateless |
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Author:
| Kertész, Imre |
ISBN: | 978-0-09-950252-4 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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Imprint: | Arrow |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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"Fourteen-year-old Gyuri s father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm s book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assigned to a permanent workplace but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus on his way to work and detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to and subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. n his arrival Gyuri...
More Description"Fourteen-year-old Gyuri s father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm s book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assigned to a permanent workplace but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus on his way to work and detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to and subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. n 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. Fateless power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust and in the strength, and strangeness, of its narrative voice.