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Title Statement | Detective story / Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. |
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Author | Kertész, Imre, 1929- |
Additional Contributors | Wilkinson, Tim |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. |
Edition | 1st American ed. |
Extent of Item | 112 p. |
ISBN | 0307266443 9780307266446 |
Other Number | 1794145 |
General Notes | "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. Translation of: Detektívtörténet. |
Summary | A former police interrogator awaiting trial for multiple counts of murder in a now overthrown regime tells of his work in the Corps, a security unit that preyed upon those opposed to the regime. An exploration of the corrupting tendencies of power and the degradation of the innocent. |
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By Topic | Dictatorship--Fiction |
Government, Resistance to--Fiction |