Liquidation
$28.36
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2017
Summary
Liquidation: Unraveling the Mystery of a Life Cut Short
A celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, known only as B., commits suicide, leaving his circle of friends reeling. Kingbitter, an editor who considered himself B.’s closest confidant, is entrusted with his papers, among which he discovers a haunting play titled “Liquidation.”
The play eerily foreshadows the actions of B.’s former wife, his mistress, and even Kingbitter himself. Obsessed with the possibility of a hidd…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784872164 |
| Author: | Imre Kertesz |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 12mm |
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A beautiful glimpse of the wide-open spaces of storytelling
A beautiful glimpse of the wide-open spaces of storytelling * Daily Telegraph *A masterly, subtle and constantly surprising novel, which, in this fine translation, reads as if it were written in this century, not the last * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Imre Kertesz
Imre Kertesz was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertesz died in Budapest in March 2016.
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