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

By:

Kertesz, Imre, (, 1929-)

Contributor(s):

Wilkinson, Tim

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : A.A. Knopf , 2008.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 112 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780307266446

Uniform titles:

Detektívtörténet . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC KER

Awards:

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC KER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		027022

Originally published as Detektívtörténet, Magveto, Budapest in 1977.

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.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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