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Detective Story
de Kertész, Imre
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307266443
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266446
- Librería
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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Sinopsis
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, and what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique's aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive and then targeted his father. Once this plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end - the destruction of an entire liberal class.Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalising world of evil and see first-hand 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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Detalles
- Librería
- Better World Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8221950-6
- Título
- Detective Story
- Autor
- Kertész, Imre
- Estado del libro
- Used - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0307266443
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266446
- Editorial
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2007040216
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