Detective Story
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407015217
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Detective Story

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Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens turns his story to his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Salinas family, and with it peers into the murderous mechanics of a regime bent on achieving its ends - no matter the means.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407015217
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
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About the author

Imre Kertesz

Imre Kertész was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertész died in Budapest in March 2016

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Praise for Detective Story

The narrative is neat, lucid, written with admirable economy

Alan Massie, Scotsman

A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner workings

The Times

A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power

Times Literary Supplement

A powerful and troubling new novella

Daily Mail

A suspenceful, bleak comic parable

Observer

One of the most inspired originals at work today...an astonishing performance, as terrifying as Kafka and as plausible...candid and as black as night, remarkable, alluring... How these pages shimmer with irony and astute observation

Irish Times

Compelling, chilling, bitter little sigh of a novel

Scotland on Sunday

A timely moral fable, then, but a gripping story too. With impressive economy, Kertesz creates enough round characters to populate a novel five times as long

Daily Telegraph

Genuinely haunting and lyrical... memorable and thought-provoking

New Statesman

A masterful addition to his other translated novels

Financial Times