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Detective Story

Detective Story

Detective Story
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Detective Story

by Kertesz, Imre

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ISBN 10
1846551838
ISBN 13
9781846551833
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London: Harvill Secker. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1846551838 . Full number line. ; 7.80 X 5.28 X 0.71 inches; 120 pages .

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
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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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