Detective story
By: Imre Kertész ; translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.
Contributors: Wilkinson, Tim.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780307266446
Subjects: Political crimes and offenses -- Fiction.; Murders -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Detektívtörténet.
Description: The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.
Notes: Originally published as Detektívtörténet, Magvető, Budapest in 1977.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.