Daring, darkly comical and profound, The Zone of Interest masterfully blends humour, moral curiosity and fearless originality to deliver a harrowing love story set in Auschwitz.
Martin Amis returns with a violently dark love story set in a Second World War concentration camp. Told by three narrators, The Zone of Interest is a vivid journey into the depths of the human soul. Readers of his 1989 novel Time's Arrow will be familiar with the setting in this comic, subtle novel.
There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul - it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it?
Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099593683
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 226 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 22 mm
Auschwitz was, in the most essential sense, “unspeakable”. It’s thus something only creative writing can speak about. If you’re Amis, that is…. The most daring novelist of our time. - John Sutherland, The Times
The Zone of Interest is a tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound moral curiosity about human beings. It's stunning. - Richard Ford
Nasty, timely, as good as anything Amis has written since London Fields… He has done his subject justice. - Spectator
It is energetic, deeply researched, it is bracingly cruel… It makes the reader squirm and resist and finally laugh… A superb novel, an important one… Where was the career-crowning work that might finally win this author his Booker? Seriously, look no further. - Tom Lamont, GQ
He likes to stamp every sentence with his authority, like the name through a stick of rock, and here he reinvents hell on earth in his distinctively gaudy, insistent, elaborate prose. It is exceptionally brave…. Shakespearean…. It’s exciting; it’s alive; it’s more than slightly mad. As the title suggests, it is dreadfully interesting. - Theo Tait, Sunday Times
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