The Zone of Interest
About this book
"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it 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 of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul"--
Subjects
- auschwitz (camp de concentration)
- auschwitz (concentration camp)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- concentration camp inmates
- concentration camps
- détenus de camp de concentration
- fiction
- fiction / cultural heritage
- fiction / historical
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction, psychological
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction
- interpersonal attraction
- jeunes femmes
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- nazis
- new york times reviewed
- revenge
- roman anglais
- romans, nouvelles
- world war, 1939-1945
- young women
- young women, fiction