The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

2014 • 306 pages

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15

I understand what Amis set out to achieve in this novel (and he succeeds!) - Mass murder as a business, dehumanising of victims etc etc - but I just couldn't take the horror any longer, so I gave up on this about halfway through. One of the darkest and most shameful periods of our history is treated as a ‘dark comedy', and I simply could not stomach it. 2.5 stars.

October 13, 2014