Liquidation (First Edition)

Imre Kertesz (author); Tim Wilkinson (translation).

ISBN 10: 1400041538 / ISBN 13: 9781400041534

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006

About this Item

Alfred A. Knopf [2006]. First American edition. First printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, which appears unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price intact on front flap ($22). Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Hungarian literature, translated by Tim Wilkinson. Rear-Stacks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liquidation (First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400041538
• ISBN 13: 9781400041534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize Winner

About this title

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.

About the Author

Imre Kertész, who was born in 1929 and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a youth, worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fatelessness, his first novel, in 1975. He is the author of Looking for a Clue, Detective Story, The Failure, The Union Jack, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, and A Galley-Slave’s Journal. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin.