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The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize forLiterature is No. It is how the novels narrator a middleaged HungarianJewish writer answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It isthe answer he gave his wife now exwife years earlier when she told him thatshe wanted one. The loss longing and regret that haunt the years between thosetwo nos give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on theHolocaust. As Kerteszs narrator addresses the child he couldnt bear to bringinto the world he ushers readers into the labyrinth of his consciousnessdramatizing the paradoxes attendant on surviving the catastrophe of Auschwitz.Kaddish for the Unborn Child is a work of staggering power lit by flashes ofperverse wit and fueled by the energy of its wholly original voice. Translatedby Tim Wilkinson «
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