The trial.

340 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1957 by Knopf.

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4 stars (8 reviews)

Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.

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