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

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Synopsis

A 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.

Ten 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.

Kingbitter, 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.

An intricately layered story of history and humanity–powerful, disturbing, lyrical, achingly suspenseful, brilliantly told.

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.