Zone of Interest

The novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film

AvMartin Amis

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Engelska, 2014

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Angelus Thomsen works at Auschwitz, dividing his attention between the demands of his post and an intimate fixation. Thomsen moves through a world of bureaucratic meetings, garden parties, and marital rivalries, all conducted in the shadow of industrialised murder. The machinery of the war operates with chilling efficiency, yet the men who oversee it concern themselves with promotion, jealousy, and reputation. Through Thomsen, Commandant Paul Doll and those around them, The Zone of Interest exposes the moral evasions and self-justifications that allow atrocity to coexist with ordinary ambition. By placing its focus not on victims but on perpetrators and bystanders, The Zone of Interest confronts the reader with the unsettling proximity between civility and cruelty, forcing a reckoning with complicity, desire, and the banality of evil inside the Holocaust. ‘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.’ Sunday Times

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-21
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448192366
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
Utmärkelser:Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2015 (UK)

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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.

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"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