Daria Titarenko Titarenko itibaren Causse-Bégon, Fransa itibaren Causse-Bégon, Fransa

This book was a little weird

THE LITERARY CAREER of Imre Kertész has been as full of improbable twists as any melodrama. Born in Budapest in 1929 to a highly assimilated Jewish family (“the kind of non-Jewish Jews who still fast on the Day of Atonement, at the very least up to noon,” he recalled in his characteristically laconic tone), Kertész was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He survived there and in Buchenwald until the camps were liberated, and then returned to Hungary, where he worked as a journalist, a factory worker, and a freelance writer and translator.Read more...

As recommended by my English teacher, Mrs Julie Hoo.