The Zone of Interest: A novel (original 2014; edition 2014)

by Martin Amis

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Title	The Zone of Interest: A novel
Author	Martin Amis
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Review	I’ve read several Martin Amis’s books before and I’ve enjoyed most of them, so I decided to read “The Zone of Interest” despite not knowing anything about its plot. And when I started reading it and I found that it was about the Holocaust but mainly from the not very common German point of view, I thought that the premise was really promising. So, I felt quite disappointed when I started to feel that the story didn’t grab me at all and that I was starting to lose interest in what I was reading. It was not only that I didn’t sympathize with any of the main German characters, which I think may be perfectly all right in this case, the problem was that the story didn’t engage me at all. I also found that the use of German was excessive, cumbersome and didn’t add anything but quite the opposite; it made it hard to follow (even with a German-English dictionary). Maybe the problem is that the novel is too ambitious. It tries to be a love story, a farce, a history novel and many more things, but in my opinion it doesn’t succeed in any of those attempts.
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Publication date	2014
Publication	Knopf (2014), Edition: First American Edition, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN	0385353499 / 9780385353496
Number of volumes	1
Number of copies	1
Pages	320
Dimensions	6.57 x 1.29 x 9.53 inches
Weight	1.42 pounds


LC Classification	PR6051.M5 Z44
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Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
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