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Vintage International : Vintage International - Imre Kertész

Vintage International

By: Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator)

Paperback | 25 October 2005

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Imre Kertesz'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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"Writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." -From the Nobel Prize citation "Not since Kafka or Beckett-both clear influences-has a writer packed so much metaphysics into so tight a space.... [A] classic literary detective story." -The New York Times Book Review

"A judgment�on the human spirit�. By turns sardonic, watchful and�bitterly despairing." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

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