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The new novel from Martin Amis

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize

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Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love.

But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll.

As Thomsen and Doll´s wife pursue their passion - the gears of Nazi Germany´s Final Solution grinding around them - Doll is riven by suspicion. With his dignity in disrepute and his reputation on the line, Doll must take matters into his own hands and bring order back to the chaos that reigns around him.

´It is exceptionally brave.... Shakespearean.... It´s exciting; it´s alive; it´s more than slightly mad. As the title suggests, it is dreadfully interesting.´ Sunday Times

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"Auschwitz was, in the most essential sense, "unspeakable". It´s thus something only creative writing can speak about. If you´re Amis, that is.... The most daring novelist of our time." John Sutherland The Times
´Surely his masterpiece... Intelligent, terrifying and comic... Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop asking them. Read it, ponder it - revel in it indeed - then read it again.´ Allan Massie, Scotsman

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Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience , two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

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