content: Martin Amis has written a masterpiece. The idea is relatively straightforward: describe the life of the main character backwards in time. The brilliance is in the execution of the idea and the choice of the main character: bit by bit we find out that during the second world war the old man with which the story starts was a guard in a German concentration camp. So what happens if you write the story backwards? All of a sudden the villains become saints: dying people are become healthier and healthier uner the hands of the guards of the camp until they walk out of the camp intact. An amazing and thought-provoking novel that will keep you contemplating long after you have finished this excellent book.