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LiquidationImre Kertész
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Liquidation

136 pagesFirst published 20043 editions
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Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B.–a writer of high literary reputation whose birth and survival in Auschwitz defied all probability–has taken his own life. Among his papers, his friend Kingbitter discovers a play titled Liquidation in which he reads an eerie foretelling of the personal and political crises that he and B.’s other friends now face: having survived the Holocaust and the years of Communist rule, having experienced the surge of hopefulness that rose from the rubble of the Wall, they are left with little but a sense of chaos and an utter loss of identity.

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Editions

3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Vintage · 144 pages · 9781400075058
  • Hardcover · English · 2004
    Knopf · 144 pages · 9781400041534
  • Other · English · 2006
    Penguin Random House · 9781843432357
FictionAuschwitz (Concentration camp)SuicideCommunismHungariansMiddle-aged menFiction, mystery & detective, general