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Detective story / Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PH3281.K3815 D4813 2008

Overview

Summary: The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.
Uniform Title: Detektívtörténet. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Kertész, Imre, 1929-2016.
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2008
Edition: First American edition
Other Authors/Editors: Wilkinson, Tim.
Notes: Originally published as Detektívtörténet, Magvető, Budapest in 1977.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Contributor biographical information
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ISBN: 0307266443
9780307266446
Physical Description: 112 pages ; 20 cm

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Subjects: Political crimes and offenses--Fiction. Murder--Fiction. Fiction.

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