Contributions

  • Wilson, Christopher C. - Contributor
  • Wilson, Katharina M. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Hydra Books, Evanston, Ill, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

23,750 words, Guess

Page Count

95 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing421164
  • Goodreads2616606

Classifications

  • DDC894/.511334
  • LCCPH3281.K3815 K313 1997

Description

Imre Kertesz's novel is a tale of identity and memory - the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the everpresent shadow of the Holocaust. The story unfolds at a retreat as the narrator, a middle-aged survivor of the Holocaust, tries to explain to a friend that he cannot bring a child into a world where the Holocaust has occurred and could occur again. In an intricate narrative, we learn of the narrator's myriad disappointments: his unsuccessful literary career, his failed marriage, his ex-wife's new family and children - children that could have been his own. Kaddish for a Child Not Born is a deeply introspective, poetic yet unsentimental work in which a man takes stock of his own life choices and those that have been made for him by events beyond his control.

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