‘Liquidation, 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’ Independent
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 suicideAmongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation 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.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
144 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Vintage Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum |
2017-09-07 |
ISBN |
9781784872168 |