The zone of interest
Subtitle: a novel
By: Martin Amis
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780385353496
Subjects: Young women; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Concentration camp inmates; Fiction
Description: "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"--
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape"--Title-page verso.

Subtitle from dust jacket.