# Liquidation

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- Book: [Liquidation](https://www.bookquiver.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation) ([Liquidation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation.md))
- Authors: [Imre Kertész](https://www.bookquiver.com/imre-kertesz)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-216-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2017-09-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘ 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 suicide. Amongst 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.