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''Fateless'' or '''''Fatelessness''''' ( written between 1960 – 1973 and first published in 1975 (ISBN 9631423883). It is a quasi-autobiographical tale about a 15 year-old Hungarian Jew 's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps . The work is the first part of a trilogy, continued in ''A kudarc'' ("Fiasco") and ''Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért'' ("Kaddish for an Unborn Child", ISBN 0810111616 and ISBN 1400078628). Its author won the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2002 , "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". The novel was first published in English in 1992 as ''Fateless'' (ISBN 0810110490 and ISBN 0810110245), while in 2004 a second translation appeared (ISBN 1400078636) under the title ''Fatelessness''. PLOT SUMMARY The novel is about a young boy, György "Gyuri" Köves (based on the author), who is taken to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald . SEE ALSO |
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