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Name: Sorstalanság
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság, translated as *Fatelessness*, is Imre Kertész’s autobiographical novel detailing a 14‑year‑old Hungarian Jew’s ordeal in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps during World War II. Written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975, the book marks the first volume of Kertész’s Holocaust trilogy, followed by *A kudarc* (“Fiasco”) and *Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért* (“Kaddish for an Unborn Child”). Kertész’s honest examination of individual lives amid the brutality of history earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction

Authors: Imre Kertész

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