Detective Story by Imre Kertesz

Detective Story by Imre Kertesz

Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon the young boy's aimless life, the secret police began to position him 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...

"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 *

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, The British Flag, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Liquidation, and Gallery-Diary 1961-1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin.

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ISBN 13	9780099523390
ISBN 10	0099523396
Title	Detective Story
Author	Imre Kertesz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2009-01-01
Number of pages	128
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