Martin Amis returns to the Holocaust, portraying life in Auschwitz through three main characters: Paul Doll, the crude, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, Hitler's secretary's nephew in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner tasked with disposing of bodies. Their intertwined narratives create a searing, profound, and darkly humorous portrait of this infamous place in history.
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