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This mirror didn ’t show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul – it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn ’t look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could.  \nWhat happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? 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 ofthe human soul.  \nAbout the Author  \nMartin Amis is the author of two collections of stories, six works of non-fiction, and thirteen previous novels, most recently Lionel Asbo.  \nAlso by Martin Amis  \nFICTION  \nThe Rachel Papers Dead Babies Success Other People Money Einstein’s Monsters London Fields Time ’s Arrow The Information Night Train Heavy Water Yellow Dog House of Meetings The Pregnant Widow Lionel Asbo  \nNON-FICTION  \nInvasion of the Space Invaders The Moronic Inferno Visiting Mrs Nabokov Experience The War Against Cliché Koba the Dread The Second Plane  \nTo those who survived and to those who did not; to the memory of Primo Levi (1919–87) and to the memory of Paul Celan (1920–70); and to the countless significant Jews and quarter-Jews and halfJews in my past and present, particularly my mother-in-law, Elizabeth, my younger daughters,  \nFernanda and Clio, and my wife, Isabel Fonseca.  \nThe Zone of Interest  \nMartin Amis  \nRound about the cauldron go;  \nIn the poisoned entrails throw: Toad, that under cold stone  \nDays and nights hast thirty-one Sweltered venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot . . .  \nFillet of a fenny snake In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog,  \nWool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder ’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing . . .  \nScale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches ’ mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravined salt sea shark, Root of hemlock digged i’ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew,  \nGall of goat, and slips of yew Silvered in the moon’s eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar ’s lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe, Ditch-delivered by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab . . .  \nCool it with a baboon’s blood;  \nThen the charm is firm and good.  \nI am in blood  \nStepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.  \nMacbeth  \nCHAPTER I. THE ZONE OF INTEREST  \n1. THOMSEN: FIRST SIGHT  \nI WAS NO stranger to the flash of lightning; I was no stranger to the thunderbolt. Enviably experienced in these matters, I was no stranger to the cloudburst – the cloudburst, and then the sunshine and the rainbow.  \nShe was coming back from the Old Town with her two daughters, and they were already well within the Zone of Interest. Up ahead, waiting to receive them stretched an avenue – almost a colonnade – of maples, their branches and lobed leaves interlocking overhead. A late afternoon in midsummer, with minutely glinting midges . . . My notebook lay open on a tree stump, and the breeze was flicking inquisitively through its pages.  \nTall, broad, and full, and yet light of foot, in a crenellated white ankle-length dress and a creamcoloured straw hat with a black band, and swinging a straw bag (the girls, also in white, had the straw hats and the straw bags), she moved in and out of pockets of fuzzy, fawny, leonine warmth. She laughed – head back, with tautened throat. Moving in parallel, I kept pace, in my tailored tweed jacket and twills, with my clipboard, my fountain pen.  \nNow the three of","cbCaisrhRhT6RJFX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisrhRhT6RJFX","pdf",1111159,186,"English","# About the Book\n## About the Author\n# Chapter I: The Zone of Interest\n## 1. 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