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Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9781400078639Author Imre KerteszFormat Paperbac -
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'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... -
The Holocaust as Culture by Imre Kertesz
Booksplease Price: $14.01Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His... -
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz 9781400075058
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9781400075058Author Imre KerteszFormat Paperbac -
Fateless Imre Kertesz 9781784872151
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' ObserverGyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian... -
Detective Story by Imre Kertesz
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power' Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution... -
Kaddish For An Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers... -
Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature by Louise O. Vasvari 9781557533968
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary,... -
Hope for a Tree: Artistic Afterlives of Job Philip S. Thomas 9781481321082
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $37.64There is a complex relationship between the meaning of Scripture and the ways it is used. Sometimes the meaning constrains Scripture's use, and sometimes Scripture's use casts new and fresh light... -
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9780811226646
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.59Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown... -
The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone 9780198778363
Booksplease Price: $101.65'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as... -
Witnessing the Holocaust: Six Literary Testimonies by Judith M. Hughes 9781350058583
Booksplease Price: $91.45Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing... -
Necropolis by Boris Pahor
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the... -
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Volume 4: Violence by Jochen Böhler 9780367518646
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.07Violence analyzes both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed... -
Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law by Dr Raluca Grosescu 9780192870346
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.02After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with atrocities perpetrated by these Cold War regimes... -
Witnessing the Holocaust: Six Literary Testimonies by Judith M. Hughes 9781350058576
Booksplease Price: $34.86Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. ... -
Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.34The study of "intermediality" explores the exchangeability of expressive means and aesthetic conventions between different art and media forms, a trend amplified and enabled by the digital age. It... -
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Booksplease Price: $42.29A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foeldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists... -
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War by Mate Nikola TokiAE 9781557538918
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.96Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian... -
An American in Warsaw - Selected Writings of Hugh S. Gibson, US Minister to Poland, 1919-1924 by Vivian Hux Reed
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.41Hugh Gibson, US Minister to Poland from 1919 to 1924, recorded his involvement with the rocky first years of Polish statehood in this collection of official dispatches and personal letters. This... -
Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies Raluca Grosescu 9780198920175
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $123.78The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies explores how socialist... -
War & War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9780811216098
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.12A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New... -
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Harold B. Segel 9780231114042
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $70.89For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the... -
The End of the Holocaust by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought... -
The End of the Holocaust by Alvin H. Rosenfeld 9780253356437
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought... -
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland by Jochen Boehler 9780198794486
Booksplease Price: $71.00The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged... -
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland by Jochen Boehler
RRP: $38.04Booksplease Price: $34.95The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged... -
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach 9780691178189
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.99How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before,... -
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach 9780691151984
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.55How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before,...