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Detective Story
by Kertesz, Imre
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1846551838
- ISBN 13
- 9781846551833
- Seller
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Synopsis
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, and what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique's aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive and then targeted his father. Once this plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end - the destruction of an entire liberal class.Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalising world of evil and see first-hand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time.
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- Bookseller
- Time Traveler Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23191
- Title
- Detective Story
- Author
- Kertesz, Imre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1846551838
- ISBN 13
- 9781846551833
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 1846551838
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