| Description |
306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"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. |
| Summary |
Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet"—the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history. |
| Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
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Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Nazi concentration camp inmates. |
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Young women. |
| Genre |
War fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780804172899 (paperback) |
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0804172897 (paperback) |
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