Imre Kertesz was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertesz died in Budapest in March 2016
A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner workings * The Times * A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power * Times Literary Supplement * A powerful and troubling new novella * Daily Mail * Genuinely haunting and lyrical... memorable and thought-provoking * New Statesman * A suspenceful, bleak comic parable * Observer *