La Zona de Interes (Paperback)

from cuentosalgernon

I've read several Martin Amis's books before and I've enjoyed most of them, so I decided to read "The Zone of Interest" despite not knowing anything about its plot. And when I started reading it and I found that it was about the Holocaust but mainly from the not very common German point of view, ...

from SamSattler

That the new Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest, is set in a World War II German concentration camp likely reduces the size of the book's potential audience because many readers are simply not willing to peer very closely into that degree of darkness and depravity. In fact, publishers in Fra...

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The Zone of Interest est un livre difficile à lire, comme la grande majorité des livres traitant d'un sujet aussi épouvantable que l'extermination nazie dans les camps. Martin Amis a écrit un roman très âpre, peuplé de personnages pleinement engagés dans la machine de mort nazie, au cynisme total...

from sberson

Not one of the best by Amis.

from asxz

I skipped the last Amis as it felt too familiar but this was worth coming back to. Set at a concentration camp but told mostly from the POV of the Germans, Amis has never been accused of avoiding controversy. He is unafraid of using humour and other wholly inappropriate devices to tell a tale of ...