The new novel from Martin Amis

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize'Surely his masterpiece... Intelligent, terrifying and comic... Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop asking them. Read it, ponder it - revel in it indeed - then read it again.'Allan Massie, Scotsman 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.

Vorwort
The new novel from Martin Amis

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize

Autorentext
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.

Klappentext

Newly arrived in the ZONE OF INTEREST - the outer perimeter of the camp at Auschwitz - Golo Thomsen, an official with important connections in Berlin, promptly falls in love with the wife of the camp commandant. We know that horror and cruelty are possible in such a setting. But what about love, comedy and heroism? Masterful, unsettling and infinitely sad, this is a holocaust novel like no other.

Zusammenfassung
Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. As Thomsen and Doll's wife pursue their passion the gears of Nazi Germany's Final Solution grinding around them Doll is riven by suspicion.