Detective Story

A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship’s inner workings * The Times *
A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power * Times Literary Supplement *
A powerful and troubling new novella * Daily Mail *
Genuinely haunting and lyrical… memorable and thought-provoking * New Statesman *
A suspenceful, bleak comic parable * Observer *
The narrative is neat, lucid, written with admirable economy – Alan Massie * Scotsman *
One of the most inspired originals at work today…an astonishing performance, as terrifying as Kafka and as plausible…candid and as black as night, remarkable, alluring… How these pages shimmer with irony and astute observation * Irish Times *
Compelling, chilling, bitter little sigh of a novel * Scotland on Sunday *
A timely moral fable, then, but a gripping story too. With impressive economy, Kertesz creates enough round characters to populate a novel five times as long * Daily Telegraph *
A masterful addition to his other translated novels * Financial Times *

Imre Kertesz was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertesz died in Budapest in March 2016.

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