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Detective Story
by Imre Kertész

ISBN 1846551838 (1-84655-183-8)
Hardcover, Random House

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Fateless
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 0810110245 (0-8101-1024-5)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press

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Book summary:
One of Publishers Weekly's Fifty Best Books of 1992

Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boys experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.

George's response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."
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Fatelessness
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, You are no Jew. In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszs unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgs dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesor pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski. [via]
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- Fatelessness: ISBN 184343251X (1-84343-251-X)
  Hardcover, Random House
- Fatelessness: ISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kaddish for a Child Not Born
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 0810111616 (0-8101-1161-6)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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- Kaddish for a Child Not Born: ISBN 0810111764 (0-8101-1176-4)
  Hardcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
- Kaddish for a Child Not Born: ISBN 0810111616 (0-8101-1161-6)
  Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 1400078628 (1-4000-7862-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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- Kaddish for an Unborn Child: ISBN 1843433001 (1-84343-300-1)
  Hardcover, Random House
- Kaddish for an Unborn Child: ISBN 1400078628 (1-4000-7862-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
Liquidation
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 140007505X (1-4000-7505-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Pathseeker
by Imre Kertész , Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson

ISBN 1933633530 (1-933633-53-0)
Softcover, Melville Pub House

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- The Pathseeker: ISBN 1933633530 (1-933633-53-0)
  Softcover, Melville Pub House