Kertesz, Imre (, 1929-)

Detective story / Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson - 1st American ed - New York : A.A. Knopf , 2008. - 112 p. ; 20 cm.

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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Political crimes and offenses----Fiction
Murders----Fiction

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