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On the surface, it’s a novel about Auschwitz—but Amis doesn’t write from the victims’ perspective. Instead, he gives us three narrators: a love-addled camp commandant, his SS adjutant obsessed with efficiency, and a Sonderkommando prisoner. The result is a dark, absurdist, and deeply uncomfortable love triangle set against the machinery of genocide.

It’s not an easy read. Some will find the tonal shifts (slapstick next to horror) morally questionable. But I think that’s the point: Amis refuses to let us look away or feel safely righteous. book zone of interest

Has anyone else read this? How do you feel about fiction that uses dark satire to approach the Holocaust? On the surface, it’s a novel about Auschwitz—but

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