The Union Jack (The Contemporary Art of the Novella) - Softcover

Praise for Imre Kertész

..".An enormous effort to understand and find a language for what the Holocaust says about the human condition."
--George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement

..".Searching and visionary beyond the usual parameters."
--Sven Birkets, Bookforum

"In explaining something of the weight and importance of Kertesz's subjects and creative achievements, it is hard to convey simultaneously the deftness and vivacity of his writing....There is something quintessentially youthful and life-affirming in this writer's sensibility..."
--Ruth Scurr, The Nation

"Kertész's work is a profound meditation on the great and enduring themes of love, death and the problem of evil, although for Kertész, it's not evil that is the problem but good."
--John Banville, author of The Sea

An unnamed narrator recounts his sighting of the Union Jack--the British flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army, in a novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Pathseeker. Original.