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Sorstalanság

Sorstalanság1992

Imre Kertész

4.0(5)on Hardcover

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**Fateless** or **Fatelessness** (Hungarian: *Sorstalanság*, lit. 'Fatelessness') is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. The book is the first part of a trilogy, which continues in A kudarc ("Fiasco" ISBN 0-8101-1161-6) and *Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért* ("Kaddish for an Unborn Child" ISBN 1-4000-7862-8). 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". (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatelessness))

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First published
1992
OL Work ID
OL2626448W

Subjects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)FictionJewish children in the HolocaustAuschwitz (Concentration camp)ShoahDans la littératureGuerre mondiale (1939-1945)Déportations de HongrieRomanKonzentrationslager AuschwitzSurvivants des camps de concentrationFiction, historicalHolocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fictionJews, fictionFiction, historical, generalBudapest (hungary), fictionFiction, religiousJewish fiction

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