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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1996
  • Latest Book:
    April 2011
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Winner, 2002 Nobel Prize for LiteratureOne of Publishers Weekly's Fifty Best Books of 1992Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy’s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself t...



  • Imre Kertesz's mesmerizing novel is a tale of identity and memory - the story of a middle-aged man taking stock of his life in the ever-present shadow of the Holocaust. The story unfolds at a writers retreat as the narrator, a survivor of the Holocau...



  • At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Je...



  • The first word in this mesmerizing 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...



  • Imre Kert?sz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.

    Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide...



  • As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertes...



  • "There's no such thing as chance...only injustice."

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history..."

    The acclaimed ...



  • "It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union ...



  • Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian go...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Imre Kertesz has published 9 books.

Imre Kertesz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fiasco, was published in April 2011.

The first book by Imre Kertesz, Fateless, was published in October 1996.

No. Imre Kertesz does not write books in series.