| Detective Story Contributor(s): Kertész, Imre (Author), Wilkinson, Tim (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0307279650 ISBN-13: 9780307279651 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: 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 and assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.32" W x 7.98" (0.32 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Nobel Laureate Imre Kert sz 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 and assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time. |