Kaddish for an unborn child

Imre Kertész

Original title: Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Translated by Tim Wilkinson earliest edition we have, 2004 Vintage International, 2004 paperback 120 pages

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 elo...

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Tim Wilkinson 2 printings we hold · 2004 · Tandem Library

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Kaddish for an Unborn Child edition · 2004 · Tandem Library · 9781417725137
Kaddish for an unborn child paperback · 2004 · Vintage International · 120 pages · 9781400078622

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