Imre Kertesz

From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvement in the torture a...

Kertesz delves into his life not only during the Second World War, when he was deported from Budapest at 14 with other Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp, but also his experiences under so-called 'Goulash Communism'. Dossier K is the first and only memoir from Imre Kertesz, an author whose fiction has often been understood through his life. Unique insights into his life and w...

Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. It is a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelenting pessimistic clarity of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forc...

Opowiesc mlodego chlopca, Zyda z Budapesztu, ktory spedzil rok w niemieckich obozach koncentracyjnych, Oswiecimiu i Buchenwaldzie. Pozbawiona patosu relacja pietnastolatka, ktory z naiwnoscia stara sie przystosowac do wymagan swoich ciemiezycieli.