Amis's 1991 novel, the short Time's Arrow, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Notable for its backwards narrative, including dialogue in reverse, the novel is the autobiography of a Nazi concentration camp doctor. The reversal of the arrow of time in the novel, a technique borrowed from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) and Philip K. Dick's Counter-Clock World (1967), is a narrative style that itself functions in Amis's hands as commentary on the Nazis' rationalisation of death and destruction as forces of creation with the resurrection of Nordic mythology in the service of German nation-building.
Amis's 1991 novel the short Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize Notable for its backwards narrative including dialogue in reverse the novel is the autobiography of a Nazi concentration camp doctor The reversal of the arrow of time in the novel a technique borrowed from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) and Philip K Dick's Counter-Clock World (1967) is a narrative style that itself functions in Amis's hands as commentary on the Nazis' rationalisation of death and destruction as forces of creation with the resurrection of Nordic mythology in the service of German nation-building