Detective Story, by Imre Kertesz, translated by Tim Wilkinson

“Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz survived the Nazi death camps only to languish for four decades under communist rule . . . Kertesz’s autobiographical novel Fateless closed with its narrator proclaiming the “happiness” of the concentration camps and opposing efforts to sentimentalise his experiences. His tight-knit mystery Liquidation finds a survivor’s marriage dissolving upon his refusal to be a father in a world responsible for Auschwitz. The incarcerated narrator of Kertesz’s Detective Story awaits probable execution in an unspecified South American country.” Read the review at the Financial Times.