Essere Senza Destino by Imre Kertész

A teenage Hungarian Jewish narrator recounts his experiences of deportation and internment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with a calm, observant voice that strips events of melodrama and examines the randomness of survival; on returning home he faces dislocation, the collapse of previous certainties, and a persistent questioning of fate, responsibility and the possibility of making sense of atrocity in a world that often appears indifferent.

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