Detective story

Author(s)

• Kertész, Imre
• Wilkinson, Tim

Bibliographic Information

Detective story

Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson

（Borzoi books）

A.A. Knopf, 2008

1st American ed

Other Title

Detektívtörténet

Note

Originally published as Detektívtörténet, Magvető, Budapest in 1977

Summary: The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police

Details

• NCID: BB00920087
• ISBN:
  • 9780307266446
• LCCN: 2007040216
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: hun
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 112 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PH3281.K3815
  • DC22 : 894/.511334
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Political crimes and offenses -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Murders -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00666702