{"product_id":"liquidation-9781400075058","title":"Liquidation","description":"\u003cp\u003eImre Kert sz's savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzling his friend Kingsbitter. For among B.'s effects, Kingsbitter finds a play that eerily predicts events after his death. Why did B.--who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived-take his life? As Kingsbitter searches for the answer--and for the novel he is convinced lies hidden among his friend's papers--\u003ci\u003eLiquidation\u003c\/i\u003e becomes an inquest into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result is moving, revelatory and haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImre Kertész, who was born in 1929 and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a youth, worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing \u003ci\u003eFatelessness\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel, in 1975. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLooking for a Clue, Detective Story, The Failure, The Union Jack, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, \u003c\/i\u003e and A \u003ci\u003eGalley-Slave's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334369644818,"sku":"9781400075058","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_828837d6-908f-49c8-89fa-5e1e5af1eeb5.jpg?v=1727888679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/liquidation-9781400075058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}