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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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This is a difficult read/listen. Not only because of the subject matter, but also the structure of the book (narrated by three characters) requires your full attention to ensure you are keeping track. In addition a love story set in a concentration camp is a brave move, especially as the protagonists are the Kommandant's wife and a very active member of the Nazi war machine. Martin Amis doesn't shirk from describing the horrors and deprived behaviour, however it is the poignant moments, such as a small girl taking charge of her baby brother before being murdered, that will stay with you forever. Dare I say there is even some dry humour, for example the Kommandant's pathetic attempt to maintain authority while sporting two black eyes of dubious origin. Above all there is the visceral description of the overwhelming smell of rotting flesh and of Berlin, described as a city with halitosis. One again Martin Amis maintains his reputation as one of our leading writers and the narrator does full justice to the material.

A stench you will never forget

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I read the outline of the book so know what to expect to a certain degree, but I receive so much more. Sean Barrett opened his reading with the title and his voice alone manage to send a shiver down my Spain. The German and French paragraphs were mastered perfectly well by Mr Berrett. I grew up in Israel, I met many old ladies with numbers tattooed on the inside of their forearm, As young people we were thought to forgive but not to forget and yet this book has shown me just how much I had forgotten.
Thank you Martin Amis for a book that should really replace Madame Bovery on the school reading list.

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Scenes of atrocity are rendered all the more nightmarish by the author’s matter of fact delivery,the interweaving of laugh out loud satire and the moments of heartbreaking pathos. Superbly narrated. Highly recommended.

Martin Amis at his masterly best

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Excellent book true Amis
This is obviously a sad & grim subject matter
Though the Nazis are made to look grotesque ( as if they could look anything else!)
It's also wickedly funny in places
7 chapters each told from the perspective of ......
1 young blonde blue eye nazi who's uncle is Martin Boorman ( spelling)
2 a camp kamandant a repulsive man
3 a Jewish man who is forced to help in the final solution
The narration is great
Best book this year and I fly through books

Amis I wish I had your mind

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