Liquidation

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Fiction/Literature "In his writing Imre Kertész explores the possibility of continuing to live and tliink as an individual in an era in which the subjection of humán beings to social forces has become increasingly complete. . . . [He] upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." -The Swedish Academy, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 With this savagely lyrical and suspenseful new növel, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Fatelessness traces the echoes of two catastrophes-the Holocaust and communism-in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe. Shortlv after the fali of communism, B., a writer of high reputation, commits suicide. Among his effects his friend Kingsbitter finds a plav that eerily loretells events after his death. Whv did B.-who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived-take his life? Iiow was he able to predict the future? As Kingsbitter searchfes for the answers to those questions-and for the növel he is... Tovább

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Fiction/Literature "In his writing Imre Kertész explores the possibility of continuing to live and tliink as an individual in an era in which the subjection of humán beings to social forces has become increasingly complete. . . . [He] upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." -The Swedish Academy, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 With this savagely lyrical and suspenseful new növel, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Fatelessness traces the echoes of two catastrophes-the Holocaust and communism-in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe. Shortlv after the fali of communism, B., a writer of high reputation, commits suicide. Among his effects his friend Kingsbitter finds a plav that eerily loretells events after his death. Whv did B.-who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived-take his life? Iiow was he able to predict the future? As Kingsbitter searchfes for the answers to those questions-and for the növel he is convinced lies hidden among his friend's papers-Liquidation becomes an inquest into the haunted secret life of a generation. The result is moving and revelatory-further evidence that Imre Kertész is one of Europe's most electrifying writers. "A judgment . . . on the humán spirit. . . By turns sardonic, watchful and . . . bitterly despairing." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "A profound meditation on the great and enduring themes of love, death and the problems of evil." -The Nation Vissza