Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

The new novel from Martin Amis

Beschreibung

'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.

Rezension

" 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 Spectator

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.