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Esta novela demuestra una vez más que a Martin Amis no le tiembla el pulso a la hora de abordar temas controvertidos. Después de la demoledora Lionel Asbo. El estado de Inglaterra, que levantó ampollas por su crudo retrato de lo peor de la sociedad británica, el autor regresa al nazismo y al Holocausto, que ya había tratado en La flecha del tiempo. Y lo hace desde un ángulo cuando menos sorprendente, cediendo la palabra a los verdugos, y sin renunciar a incomodar al lector con ciertos toques de comedia negra.

John Self is addicted to life. Porn freak and jetsetter, a aficionado of wealth and women, Self is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an insistent invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, making a fortune but spending more, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.

Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He dies and then feels better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home.

How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? The answer: attack his reputation. This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire - The Information skewers high life and low in Martin Amis's brilliant return to the territory of Money and London Fields.

"C'era una volta un re, e questo re incaricò il suo mago prediletto di fabbricare uno specchio magico. Questo specchio non ti mostrava il tuo riflesso. Ti mostrava la tua anima - ti mostrava chi eri realmente". E il campo di concentramento è quello specchio. Nella zona d'interesse del campo, Golo Thomsen, nazista mediocre, riscopre un sentimento che pareva impossibile in quel luogo e in quel tempo. S'innamora di Hannah Doll, una donna sposata, che come lui sta scrutando lo specchio per capire chi è. Ma c'è un problema: Hannah è la moglie del Comandante: il cinico, spietato, grottesco Paul Doll.

A haunting, gothic love triangle set in postwar Moscow and an Arctic gulag, where forbidden passion and betrayal shape destinies and echo across decades. House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two...

Brought to you by Penguin. This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic. His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary...

This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the...

From “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (Time), Other People is a tale about a woman’s path toward self-actualization. "[Narrator Stephanie] MacGaraidh's performance captures the speech patterns and accents of the despicable characters with chilling clarity...Precise and...

In the brutal, concrete landscape of Diston Town, teenage Des Pepperdine is doing his best to stay invisible—reading poetry, avoiding trouble, and nursing a dangerous secret. But his guardian, Lionel Asbo, is a ferocious presence: a pit bull-breeding, tabloid-devouring career criminal with a...

Poche settimane separano Charles Highway dall'età adulta e molto resta da fare all'ipersolipsistico ed erotizzato protagonista prima che quel funesto traguardo, il ventesimo compleanno, segni irrimediabilmente la fine della libertà adolescenziale e l'inizio della responsabilità matura. Ci sono gli esami da preparare, il corpus di poesie giovanili da completare, c'è il padre da odiare e, sopra ogni cosa, c'è da aggiungere al carnet delle esperienze accumulate quella del sesso con una Donna Più Grande. Ed ecco Rachel: bella, elegante, inarrivabile, e di un intero mese più matura.

What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul.

It was summer 1970 – a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing – twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel – is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends.

The murderee is Nicola Six, a 'black hole' of sex and self-loathing who is intend on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honourable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. And as Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London - and, indeed, the whole world - seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.