The Zone of Interest

 
　　英國作家馬丁‧艾米斯 (Martin Amis) 在1991年出版的《時間箭》中，首次針對猶太大屠殺的議題書寫。而在《The Zone of Interest》裡，他將故事聚焦在奧斯威辛集中營周圍的禁區，描述一名納粹指揮官和其家人在集中營圍牆外所享有的美好生活。(文／博客來外文館)
 
 

NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life--and love--among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz.

＂A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve.＂ --San Francisco Chronicle

Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time’s Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in ＂the zone of interest,＂ or ＂kat zet＂--the Nazis’ euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler’s private secretary, in love with Doll’s wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history.

An epilogue by the author elucidates Amis’s reasons and method for undertaking this extraordinary project.

Martin Amis is the author of thirteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories, and six nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.