The Zone of Interest [Paperback]

A Best Book of the Year:Time, NPR,The Village Voice,The Miami Herald,Financial Times,Minneapolis Star Tribune,BookRiot

“Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.” —NPR
 
“This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . .  to imagine the unimaginable.” —The Guardian(London)
 
“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.” —Richard Ford
 
“Signature Amis at his most inventive. . . . It is precisely through such inspired and irreverent fluency that his dead-serious purpose is realized.” —The Washington Post

“The Zone of Interestharrows in the true sense of the word, churning up our preconceptions and assumptions. It is a work of artistic courage, chilling comedy and incontestable moral seriousness.” —Financial Times

“Heartbreaking. . . . [Amis is] a virtuosically vivid writer.” —The Atlantic
 
“His finest so far. . . . Astonishing. . . . A tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift.” —The Daily Beast

“Compelling. . . . Harrowingly effective.” —Slate

“I was riveted by Martin Amis’sThe Zone of Interest, with its daring projection into the mind and ‘heart’ of a character . . . It felt like a fitting way to spy on historical events that are impossible to look at but that must, nevertheless, always be kept in sight.” —John Colapinto,The New Yorker

“Engrossing. . . . Rich in black comedy.” —Chicago Tribune

“Elegant and subtle. . . . AlÓà