Liquidation, 9781784872168
Paperback
Suicide, secrets, and a final manuscript reveal a dark, shared history.

Liquidation

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    14 September 2017

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Summary

A stunning novel from the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature; the story of a Hungarian writer whose death forces his circle of friends to confront their own terrible moment in history.

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide… A compelling if deeply unsettling work’ Independent

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784872168
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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Critics Review

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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