Fiaskoen Av Imre Kertész

Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew witnesses his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - before being sent to a labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace',...

Kingbitter, an editor at a publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend of a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, B, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers, Kingbitter finds a play entitled...

<p>¿A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power¿ <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His...

Romanen handler om den unge Köves, som blir tatt og ført til en konsentrasjonsleir, men som tilpasser seg og overlever. Köves betrakter hendelsene i leiren som et barn uten helt å forstå dem, og uten å finne dem unaturlige eller opprørende. Leseren...