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The Zone Of Interest (2014)

by Martin Amis(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385353499 (ISBN13: 9780385353496)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: Started out great, compelling storyline held my interest in the beginning(novel is told from multiple points of view of characters at a death camp during WW II), but considerably slowed and became scattered and trivialized halfway through. I felt the descriptions of sex and sexualized descriptions of body parts were gratuitous and not relevant other than that of perhaps Doll's, but even there his preoccupation with describing his wife was unnecessary and did not add to the story - same with other male characters. I didn't feel Hannah's character was fleshed out enough, throughout. I did like that it didn't have a tidy, happy ending.
review 2: I found this book singularly unsatisfying. I still don't know what the author was attempting. His long post script tries... more to explain, but why did he not use the text? We have had enough of inquiries into the why of the holocaust. By now we should realize we will not get into the German mind, no matter how hard we try. That Hitler wanted a total failure is about as interesting a theory as Aryans came from outer space. And I think it is about as valid. Amis wastes much time and energy in his so-called black comedy. I was not amused. I did not think it clever. less

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