Detective Story

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Imre Kertész

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Detective Story engages the reader in the mind of Antonio Martens, a tormentor for the secret police of a fallen dictatorship. From his prison cell, Martens recounts his involvement in the surveillance, brutal treatment, and assassination of a father and son who opposed the regime.

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Imre Kertész

Kertész was fourteen when he was deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, survived, came home to Budapest and spent the communist decades writing in obscurity, translating from German to eat. Fatelessness took him thirteen years and was rejected on first submission; it describes a boy’s…

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