{"title":"Imre Kertész","description":"Imre Kertesz, 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, The British Flag, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Liquidation, and Gallery-Diary 1961-1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin.","products":[{"product_id":"detective-story-paperback","title":"Detective Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Nobel Laureate Imre Kert sz comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvement in the torture and assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, \u003cb\u003eDetective Story\u003c\/b\u003e is a warning cry for our time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103678566623,"sku":"9780307279651","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vD8O4w06z69780307279651.webp?v=1781097424"},{"product_id":"liquidation-paperback","title":"Liquidation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImre Kert sz's savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzling his friend Kingsbitter. For among B.'s effects, Kingsbitter finds a play that eerily predicts events after his death. Why did B.--who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived-take his life? As Kingsbitter searches for the answer--and for the novel he is convinced lies hidden among his friend's papers--\u003ci\u003eLiquidation\u003c\/i\u003e becomes an inquest into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result is moving, revelatory and haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterly 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. \u003cbr\u003eTen years have passed since the fall of Communism. B.-a writer of high literary reputation whose birth and survival in Auschwitz defied all probability-has taken his own life. Among his papers, his friend Kingbitter discovers a play titled \"Liquidation in which he reads an eerie foretelling of the personal and political crises that he and B.'s other friends now face: having survived the Holocaust and the years of Communist rule, having experienced the surge of hopefulness that rose from the rubble of the Wall, they are left with little but a sense of chaos and an utter loss of identity. \u003cbr\u003eKingbitter, desperate to understand his friend's suicide, begins a furious search for the novel he believes might be among B.'s papers and might provide the key. But the search takes him in unexpected directions: deep into his own memories and into those of B.'s ex-wife, Judith, the hidden corners of their lives revealed-to themselves and to us-at the same time as the mystery of B.'s life is slowly unraveled. \u003cbr\u003eAn intricately layered story of history and humanity-powerful, disturbing, lyrical, achingly suspenseful, brilliantly told. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104835440863,"sku":"9781400075058","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NMqsLnVkcP9781400075058.webp?v=1781111415"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/imre-kertesz.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}