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Summary of "Fateless"
Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. Fateless is his best known novel, and it is based on his own experiences as a young boy in the concentration camps. One day a police officer stops a bus and orders all jews to get out. Amongst them is Gyorgy, a 14 year old Hungerian boy, whose father has just been sent off to a concentration camp. When his father left Gyorgy did not understand why everyone was so sad, and he could not feel any sympathy for his father. Gyorgy and the others are transported by train to the concentration camp Auschwitz where the children, the sick and the weak are separated from the rest. Gyorgy tells the officers that he is 16 years old and this saves his life. He is then sent to Buchenwald and later to Zeitz to work in the camps. The story is told in first person by Gyorgy. He accepts the conditions in the camp and tries to survive, where hunger is the worst enemy. He soon learns to stand far back in the soup line, because the soup is thicker at the bottom, and he learns how to work as little as possible to save his strength. He starts appreciating the smaller things in life, like an extra piece of bread, and feels moments of happiness in the camps. He doesn't show any hadred towards the guards. He even thinks that the they are beutiful with their round healthy faces and their beautiful clothes. The thing that makes this book so good is that Gyorgy doesn't say that it is all wrong. He is simply describing what is happing, like it is the most natural thing in the world. Gyorgy shares his own thoughts without hadred or dislike; instead he leaves it to the reader to judge.
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