The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis [U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2014 • Knopf

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2014] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket shows some wear; discoloration to rear; area of sticker ghosting to rear corner and one small sealed tear.   Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is clean, tight and reads as new.  Tiny remainder mark to bottom of text block, and a touch of wear to deckle-edges.

ABOUT THE BOOK

NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-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.

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.