Liquidation - Hardcover

Kertesz, Imre; Wilkinson, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400041538 ISBN 13: 9781400041534

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004

Synopsis

The suicide of a an acclaimed Hungarian writer who was born and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp forces his colleages and friends to confront their own identity, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Communist rule as they desperately try to understand their friend's death, in a new novel by the 2002 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Review:

"Writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." -From the Nobel Prize citation

"Not since Kafka or Beckett-both clear influences-has a writer packed so much metaphysics into so tight a space.... [A] classic literary detective story." -The New York Times Book Review

"A judgmentÉon the human spiritÉ. By turns sardonic, watchful andÉbitterly despairing." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

From the Publisher:

A stunning new novel from the 2002 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400041538
• ISBN 13: 9781400041534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 129