Hybrid Virtual and In-Person Town and Gown Literary Discussion Group: “Zone of Interest”

This month, we will be reading “Zone of Interest” by Martin Amis. Get the book at the Library!

Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time’s Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in “The Zone of Interest,” or “kat zet“—the Nazis’ euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler’s private secretary, in love with Doll’s wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history.

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