Imre Kertesz, Author, Katharina Wilson, Translator, Christopher Wilson, Translator Northwestern University Press $68 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1024-3
Kertesz ( Kaddish for an Unborn Child ), who, as a youth, spent a year as a prisoner in Auschwitz, has crafted a superb, haunting novel that follows Gyorgy Koves, a 14-year old Hungarian Jew, during the year he is imprisoned in Auschwitz and...
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Imre Kertesz, Author, Imre Kerta(c)Sz, Author, Tim Wilkinson, Translator Vintage Books USA $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4000-7862-2
In a tortured burst of introspection, the Hungarian-Jewish narrator of Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz's brief novel Kaddish for an Unborn Child examines his reasons for choosing not to have a child, addressing his monologue to the son or daughter...
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Imre Kertesz, Author, Tim Wilkinson, Translator , trans. from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. Knopf $21 (112p) ISBN 978-0-307-26644-6
At the start of this subtle look at the price of the war on terror from Hungarian author Kertész (Liquidation
), Antonio Martens, a policeman in an unnamed Latin American country, awaits trial for multiple counts of murder after the regime...
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Imre Kertesz, Author, Tim Wilkinson, Translator , trans. from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. Melville House $13 (129p) ISBN 978-1-933633-53-4
Hungarian Nobel Prize–winner (2002) Kertész delivers a taut, grim allegory of man in the face of oppression. A government commissioner is deposited along with his wife in an unnamed European city in order to make a site inspection of a...
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Imre Kertész, trans. from Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. Melville (Random, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-61219-202-4
Hungarian author Kertész (Kaddish for an Unborn Child), winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature, pens an unflinching memoir in the form of a Socratic dialogue with himself about his extraordinary life. Noting that “a good autobiography is like
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Imre Kertesz, Author, Katharina M. Wilson, Translator, Christopher C. Wilson, Translator Hydra Books $24.95 (95p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1176-9
An anguished cri de coeur delivered in a relentless monologue by an unnamed Holocaust survivor, this slim book by the author of Fateless is harrowing to read. The middle-aged narrator, an author and literary translator, attempts to explain why he...
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