by Imre Kertész · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420401164
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«Liquidación» is the fiction novel by Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, published by Alfaguara in 2004 in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Keserü works at a publishing house and reviews the posthumous papers of B., a writer friend who took his own life, looking for an unpublished novel. The search leads him to review his own life and discover B.'s past: Auschwitz, his love stories, and the political changes of the late eighties.
Translation by Adán Kovacsics; the Hungarian original, Felszámolás, is from 2003. The Spanish edition, from 2004, belongs to the Literaturas collection from Alfaguara.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in Central European literature and the work of Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize in Literature.
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
