The zone of interest

Description:

"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul"--

subjects: Young women,  Auschwitz (Concentration camp),  Concentration camp inmates,  Fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Young women, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, psychological,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Cultural Heritage,  FICTION / Historical,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  Concentration camps,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Interpersonal attraction,  Nazis,  Revenge,  World War, 1939-1945,  Romans, nouvelles,  Détenus de camp de concentration,  Jeunes femmes,  Roman anglais,  Auschwitz (Camp de concentration)

Places: Germany

Times: 21e siècle