The zone of interest : a novel /
Amis, Martin.
The zone of interest : a novel / Martin Amis. - First United States Edition. - 306 pages ; 25 cm
"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"--
9780385353496 9780804172899
2014011667
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Historical.
Love stories.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6051.M5 / Z44 2014
823/.914
The zone of interest : a novel / Martin Amis. - First United States Edition. - 306 pages ; 25 cm
"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"--
9780385353496 9780804172899
2014011667
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Historical.
Love stories.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6051.M5 / Z44 2014
823/.914