Liquidation: Imre Kertesz - Softcover

Kertesz, Imre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784872164 ISBN 13: 9781784872168

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2017

Synopsis

‘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

Kingbitter, an editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.'s ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play, Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B.'s great novel: the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz.

About this title

Review:

"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)

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: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784872164
• ISBN 13: 9781784872168
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144