Liquidation

Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide... A compelling if deeply unsettling work' Independent Kingbitter, an editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.'s ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play, Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B.'s great novel: the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz.

Product details

• Authors: Imre Kertesz
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781784872168
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-216-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Jewish, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary