{"product_id":"liquidation-by-ime-kertesz","title":"'Liquidation' by Imre Kertész","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"397\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"232\"\u003eLiquidation\u003c\/em\u003e is Imre Kertész’s final novel, written after the fall of communism and after his Nobel Prize, and it reads like a reckoning with both history and authorship itself.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"785\"\u003eSet in post-1989 Budapest, the novel follows a circle of editors and intellectuals grappling with the suicide of a writer known only as B., who survived Auschwitz but could not survive freedom. What unfolds is not a mystery diving into moral responsibility after catastrophe, the impossibility of “closure,” and where meaning might live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"1104\"\u003eThe novel is steeped in the contradictions of post-totalitarian life — archives opening, truths fragmenting, lives exposed to reinterpretation. It is both intimate and philosophical. A true coda to a sensational body of work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"1104\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst English-language hardback, published by Harvill Secker (Random House), 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43428115021907,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/097d84dd-c0a7-4eab-b85d-68ef6060ff78.jpg?v=1770603868","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/liquidation-by-ime-kertesz","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}