Liquidation

Author(s): Imre Kertesz

Fiction | 2000s

"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 publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend of a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, B, 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.


Product Information

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

General Fields

  • : 9781784872168
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.124
  • : August 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Imre Kertesz
  • : 144
  • : 894.511334
  • : English
  • : 1709
  • : Paperback