Detective Story
Imre Kertesz author Tim Wilkinson translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Sep '17
Should be back in stock very soon
Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.
‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement
From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution.
‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement
From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens turns his story to his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Salinas family, and with it peers into the murderous mechanics of a regime bent on achieving its ends - no matter the means.
A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner workings * The Times *
A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power * Times Literary Supplement *
A powerful and troubling new novella * Daily Mail *
Genuinely haunting and lyrical... memorable and thought-provoking * New Statesman *
A suspenceful, bleak comic parable * Observer *
The narrative is neat, lucid, written with admirable economy -- Alan Massie * Scotsman *
One of the most inspired originals at work today...an astonishing performance, as terrifying as Kafka and as plausible...candid and as black as night, remarkable, alluring... How these pages shimmer with irony and astute observation * Irish Times *
Compelling, chilling, bitter little sigh of a novel * Scotland on Sunday *
A timely moral fable, then, but a gripping story too. With impressive economy, Kertesz creates enough round characters to populate a novel five times as long * Daily Telegraph *
A masterful addition to his other translated novels * Financial Times *
ISBN: 9781784872182
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 9mm
Weight: 100g
128 pages