A Best Book of the Year:
Time, NPR,
The Village Voice,
The Miami Herald,
Financial Times,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
BookRiot "Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career." --NPR
"This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . . to imagine the unimaginable." --
The Guardian (London)
"A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound moral curiosity about human beings." --Richard Ford
"Signature Amis at his most inventive. . . . It is precisely through such inspired and irreverent fluency that his dead-serious purpose is realized." --
The Washington Post
"
The Zone of Interest harrows in the true sense of the word, churning up our preconceptions and assumptions. It is a work of artistic courage, chilling comedy and incontestable moral seriousness." --
Financial Times
"Heartbreaking. . . . Amis is] a virtuosically vivid writer." --
The Atlantic "His finest so far. . . . Astonishing. . . . A tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift." --
The Daily Beast "Compelling. . . . Harrowingly effective." --
Slate