The Union Jack

by Imre Kertész

"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."

A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.

An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack--the British Flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, partly a digressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933633875
• ISBN13: 9781933633879
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 7.1"