{"product_id":"9781612193274","title":"The Pathseeker","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"There's no such thing as chance...only injustice.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile  experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history...\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor  Imre Kertész continues his investigation of the malignant methodologies of totalitarianism  in a major work of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a mysterious middle–European country, a man identified  only as “the commissioner” undertakes what seems to be a banal trip to a nondescript  town with his wife—a brief detour on the way to a holiday at the seaside—that turns  into something ominous. Something terrible has happened in the town, something that  no one wants to discuss. With his wife watching on fearfully, he commences a perverse  investigation, rudely interrogating the locals, inspecting a local landmark with  a frightening intensity, traveling to an outlying factory where he confronts the  proprietors ... and slowly revealing a past he's been trying to suppress.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a limpid  translation by Tim Wilkinson, this haunting tale lays bare an emotional and psychological  landscape ravaged by totalitarianism in one of Kertsz's most devastating examinations  of the responsibilities of and for the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135413829872,"sku":"9781612193274","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612193274_p0.jpg?v=1763842362","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612193274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}