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The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? 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.

©2014 Martin Amis (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Political War & Military Military War
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"An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you need to read - the best of his generation" ( Mail on Sunday)
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This is a book like no other. Chills to the core. A deeply saddening story.

Great narration of a difficult book

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An exploration of the dark side of human nature, scattered with moments of love and humanity.

Challenging

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This book is relentless in its description and narrative of beastly behaviour and yet I never wanted to turn it off or stop listening. Beyond ugly telling the story of anti semitism, genocide, and brutality through the perspective of three men.
I do criticise it for the unnecessary overt sexual behaviour of men but I suppose it adds to its hideousness.

Ugly

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A striking take on love and hate. And beautifully, wittily written, as ever. Splendidly read.

Mesmerising

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The book, from which the film gets its name (and seems to leave any aspect of a plot behind) is a story of Auschwitz (during its most prolific period of extermination) told in each chapter from three perspectives: The main narrator (who felt like a somewhat likeable, disconnected yet well-connected Nazi), the commandant (business-like, paranoid and sinking (sunk) into the depths of depravity); and a prisoner in the Sonderkommando (giving a detached perspective, disconnected from any real life-based timeline, in a living nightmare).
An intriguing plot develops involving the relationships between the two nazis and the commandant’s wife and it’s well worth a careful listen.

So much better than the oscar-winning (and, for me, not at all deserving) film of the same name.

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