Book description
Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently
defunct dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount 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 the young boy's aimless life, the secret police began
to position him as a subversive element, before they turned their
attentions to his father. Once the plan was set into motion, any means
were justified to reach the regime's chosen end...
Imre Kertész
, who was born in 1929 and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a
youth, worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing
Fatelessness,
his first novel, in 1975. He is the author of
Looking for a Clue,
The British Flag, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Liquidation,
and
Gallery-Diary 1961-1991.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in
Budapest and Berlin.
