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I've read many books over the years on the holocaust, and I had been wanting to read Fatelessness for a long time. Hungarian Kertesz won a Nobel Prize for his writing. Some say this fictional account is semi-autobiographical, but Kertesz denied it.
What I found fascinating about this work is the almost dreamlike quality to it. The main character, Koves was picked up with many other boys his age (14) and sent to a train station without being informed about what was happening to them. He is sent to ...more
What I found fascinating about this work is the almost dreamlike quality to it. The main character, Koves was picked up with many other boys his age (14) and sent to a train station without being informed about what was happening to them. He is sent to ...more
I really wanted to like this book and to find it wonderful. I did not. This could be because of the translation, the book was originally written in Hungarian. The narrator is interesting, well drawn and believable. The story is carefully told, with each chapter building on each other. The main character, a 14 year old Hungarian who is an ethnic, although not religious Jew, is moved through the German forced labor and concentration camp system at the end of WWII. We are introduced to each horror
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