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Name: Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Author: Imre Kertész

📘 Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész

The first word in this 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

First publish date: 2004

Authors: Imre Kertész

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