The Zone of Interest

Zusatztext I was riveted by Martin Amis's The Zone of Interest ! with its daring projection into the mind and 'heart' of a character . . . It felt like a fitting way to spy on historical events that are impossible to look at but that must! nevertheless! always be kept in sight. John Colapinto! The New Yorker Engrossing. . . . Rich in black comedy. Chicago Tribune Elegant and subtle. . . . An intriguing! sophisticated effort to understand the daily culture of genocide. Los Angeles Times [A] serious and diligently researched work with a streak of deadpan humor that reframes! and reemphasizes! the horror at hand. Entertainment Weekly Returning to the Holocaustthe subject of Time's Arrow ! still among [Amis's] best booksAmis seems greatly energized! addressing the most serious theme with rigour! sophistication! and! most astonishingly! wit. The Village Voice [Amis] is still the scourge of cliché and the supreme man of letters. . . . Dazzl[es] us once more with verbal dexterity and gutsy inventiveness. Minneapolis Star Tribune [A] pulverizing novel about identity and humanity. . . in equal measure funny and crushing! with emphasis on how chaos and mass psychosis act on the souls living through it. The Miami Herald Moving. . . . Genius. . . . Capture[s] that contrast between frivolity and horror with elegance and irony. St. Louis Post-Dispatch An important bookrelentless! excoriating! blisteringly well-written. . . . Mr. Amis is one of our most accomplished writers. . . . Fiercely sharp-witted! his writing has the capacity to be so unique and dexterous as to create the impression he works from some higher alphabet than the rest of us. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Exceptionally brave. . . . An extended rumination! a nightmare. . . . It's exciting; it's alive; it's more than slightly mad. As the title suggests! it's dreadfully interesting. The Sunday Times Displays both restraint and humanity. . . . Takes on themes of immense gravity. . . . Martin Amis isn't new to the business of turning the horrors of history into fiction! but he has never done so more thoughtfully than in this disquieting novel. . . . He has confronted its challenges with honour and delicacy. The Times Literary Supplement (London) As good as anything Amis has written since London Fields (1989)! and one he obviously felt compelled to write. He has done his subject justice. The Spectator Highly cerebral and innovative! and also human! humaneeven humblingthis is a brave! inquiring work from a literary maverick whose biggest problem as an artist has been his rampaging talent. He has certainly harnessed it here. The Irish Times Informationen zum Autor MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novelsamong them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and Night Train along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story , two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023. Klappentext "Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014"--Title page verso. 3. SZMUL: Sonder? Ihr seit achzen johr, we whisper, und ihr hott a fach . Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soulit showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful ...

“I was riveted by Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest, with its daring projection into the mind and ‘heart’ of a character . . . It felt like a fitting way to spy on historical events that are impossible to look at but that must, nevertheless, always be kept in sight.” —John Colapinto, The New Yorker

“Engrossing. . . . Rich in black comedy.” —*Chicago Tribune

• “Elegant and subtle. . . . An intriguing, sophisticated effort to understand the daily culture of genocide.” —*Los Angeles Times
• “[A] serious and diligently researched work with a streak of deadpan humor that reframes, and reemphasizes, the horror at hand.” —*Entertainment Weekly

• “Returning to the Holocaust—the subject of Time’s Arrow, still among [Amis’s] best books—Amis seems greatly energized, addressing the most serious theme with rigour, sophistication, and, most astonishingly, wit.” —The Village Voice

  “[Amis] is still the scourge of cliché and the supreme man of letters. . . . Dazzl[es] us once more with verbal dexterity and gutsy inventiveness.” —*Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “[A] pulverizing novel about identity and humanity. . . in equal measure funny and crushing, with emphasis on how chaos and mass psychosis act on the souls living through it.” —*The Miami Herald
• “Moving. . . . Genius. . . . Capture[s] that contrast between frivolity and horror with elegance and irony.” —*St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• “An important book—relentless, excoriating, blisteringly well-written. . . . Mr. Amis is one of our most accomplished writers. . . . Fiercely sharp-witted, his writing has the capacity to be so unique and dexterous as to create the impression he works from some higher alphabet than the rest of us.” —*Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• “Exceptionally brave. . . . An extended rumination, a nightmare. . . . It’s exciting; it’s alive; it’s more than slightly mad. As the title suggests, it’s dreadfully interesting.” —The Sunday Times

  “Displays both restraint and humanity. . . . Takes on themes of immense gravity. . . . Martin Amis isn’t new to the business of turning the horrors of history into fiction, but he has never done so more thoughtfully than in this disquieting novel. . . . He has confronted its challenges with honour and delicacy.” —The Times Literary Supplement (London)

  “As good as anything Amis has written since London Fields (1989), and one he obviously felt compelled to write. He has done his subject justice.” —*The Spectator

• “Highly cerebral and innovative, and also human, humane—even humbling—this is a brave, inquiring work from a literary maverick whose biggest problem as an artist has been his rampaging talent. He has certainly harnessed it here.” —The Irish Times

Autorentext
MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels—among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, and Night Train—along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.

Klappentext

"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014"--Title page verso.

Zusammenfassung
NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz.

"A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." —San Francisco Chronicle
 
Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel *…