Martin Amis (2104 Event)

The last time Martin Amis wrote about the Holocaust was in 1991 in his novel Time’s Arrow. Now he returns to the subject with the much-anticipated The Zone of Interest. In this event, recorded live at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, he discusses this acclaimed new work in which he succeeds in finding moments of unexpected comedy as love blossoms in a Nazi concentration camp.

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