MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels—among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, and Night Train—along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami
Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot
“I was riveted by Martin Amis’s The 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. . . . An intriguing, sophisticated effort to
understand the daily culture of genocide.” —Los Angeles Times
“[A] serious and diligently researched work with a streak of
deadpan humor that reframes, and reemphasizes, the horror at hand.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“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, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter
“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 Interest harrows 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
“Returning to the Holocaust—the subject of Time’s Arrow, still
among [Amis’s] best books—Amis seems greatly energized, addressing
the most serious theme with rigour, sophistication, and, most
astonishingly, wit.” —The Village Voice
“[Amis] is still the scourge of cliché and the supreme man of
letters. . . . Dazzl[es] us once more with verbal dexterity and
gutsy inventiveness.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[A] pulverizing novel about identity and humanity. . . in equal
measure funny and crushing, with emphasis on how chaos and mass
psychosis act on the souls living through it.” —The Miami
Herald
“Moving. . . . Genius. . . . Capture[s] that contrast between
frivolity and horror with elegance and irony.” —St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
“An important book—relentless, excoriating, blisteringly
well-written. . . . Mr. Amis is one of our most accomplished
writers. . . . Fiercely sharp-witted, his writing has the capacity
to be so unique and dexterous as to create the impression he works
from some higher alphabet than the rest of us.” —Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
“Exceptionally brave. . . . An extended rumination, a nightmare. .
. . It’s exciting; it’s alive; it’s more than slightly mad. As
the title suggests, it’s dreadfully interesting.” —The Sunday
Times
“Displays both restraint and humanity. . . . Takes on themes of
immense gravity. . . . Martin Amis isn’t new to the business of
turning the horrors of history into fiction, but he has never done
so more thoughtfully than in this disquieting novel. . . . He has
confronted its challenges with honour and delicacy.” —The Times
Literary Supplement (London)
“As good as anything Amis has written since London Fields (1989),
and one he obviously felt compelled to write. He has done his
subject justice.” —The Spectator
“Highly cerebral and innovative, and also human, humane—even
humbling—this is a brave, inquiring work from a literary maverick
whose biggest problem as an artist has been his rampaging talent.
He has certainly harnessed it here.” —The Irish Times
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