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Detective Story
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 Description"A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power". (Times Literary Supplement). Antonio Martens was an interrogator for the secret police of a recently fallen dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Federigo Salinas and his son, Enrique. Preying upon the aimless Enrique, the secret police began by positioning the son as a subversive element, before they turned their attentions to his father. Once the plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end... Author descriptionImre 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 |
