Book Zone Of Interest May 2026

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.

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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