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Liquidation

By Imre Kertesz, Tim Wilkinson (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9781400075058

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Imre Kert?sz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.

Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzContinue

Imre Kert?sz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.

Ten 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–Liquidation becomes an inquest into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result is moving, revelatory and haunting.

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  • The great insubordination

    Liquidation by Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson (Vintage, £7.99) The novel begins as if we are going to be subject to the kind of literary game beloved of the nouveau roman: the epigraph from Beckett's Molloy ("Then I went back to the house ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Liquidation

    Liquidation begins in the third person, with the narrator circuitously approaching the protagonist, a literary editor named Kingbitter. It then continues as fragments of a play called Liquidation in which Kingbitter is a character, and then switches ... (read full critics)

    dannyreviews published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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