Liquidation Av Imre Kertész

<p>‘<i>Liquidation</i>, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide… A compelling if deeply unsettling work’ <i>Independent</i> <br><br>Kingbitter, an editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled <i>Liquidation</i> that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.''s ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play, Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B.''s great novel: the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz.</p>