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&bull> Provocative, like Nabokov's Lolita. Bizarre, like Joyce's Ulysses
• The novel is a Booker Prize winner

Imagine that life begins with death. Youth comes after old age. Farewell precedes the meeting. Does it sound absurd? No, it's the story of Dr Todd Friendly, who's life unfolds in reverse. From his death in a car accident somewhere in the United States to the Nazi death camps in Auschwitz. Inexorably approaching the most massive crime of the Second World War - the Holocaust. The ashes are about to turn into people and Dr Friendly's worst nightmare is about to come true. A man in black boots and a white coat, millions of innocent victims - where does this eerie premonition of the future come from? And the realisation that nothing can be changed. Because the future has already happened.

About the author:

Martin Amis is a British novelist, bestselling author, and advocate of innovation in literature. He has written for such reputable publications as The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and The New Yorker. The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers.