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The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis

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English
Arrow
01 June 2015
There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul - it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? 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.

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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   226g
ISBN:   9780099593683
ISBN 10:   0099593688
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martin Amis is the author of two collections of stories, six works of non-fiction, and thirteen previous novels, most recently Lionel Asbo.

Reviews for The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest is a tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound moral curiosity about human beings. It's stunning. -- Richard Ford Nasty, timely, as good as anything Amis has written since London Fields... He has done his subject justice. Spectator It is energetic, deeply researched, it is bracingly cruel... It makes the reader squirm and resist and finally laugh... A superb novel, an important one... Where was the career-crowning work that might finally win this author his Booker? Seriously, look no further. -- Tom Lamont GQ He likes to stamp every sentence with his authority, like the name through a stick of rock, and here he reinvents hell on earth in his distinctively gaudy, insistent, elaborate prose. It is exceptionally brave... Shakespearean... It's exciting; it's alive; it's more than slightly mad. As the title suggests, it is dreadfully interesting. -- Theo Tait Sunday Times Auschwitz was, in the most essential sense, unspeakable . It's thus something only creative writing can speak about. If you're Amis, that is... The most daring novelist of our time. -- John Sutherland The Times


  • Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015
  • Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015.
  • Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2015 (UK)
  • Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2016 (UK)
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016 (UK)
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016.
  • Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015
  • Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015.

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