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|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|hardback=1842433512
|pages=160
|publisher=1842433512No Exit Press
|date=June 2010
|isbn=1842433512
Some people are going to say this book is little more than Nazi porn. Some will say it's a dark and searing look into the depths of our collective soul. And I'll be honest with you: I don't have the faintest idea of who's right. I don't know what we are intended to take from it at all. But what I do know is that opening scene is an absolute triumph - horrific but vivid and with such draw, such power, that you're too intimately involved to even think of backing off. It's a disturbing book, no less disturbing for that it's so beautifully written. And look at the world around us: there's no use pretending that nationalism, extremism and religious fundamentalism are things of the past.
Drawing on Kafka and Conrad, this is a brave and original book for the stout of heart. And it'll stay with me for a long time.
My thanks to the good people at No Exit for sending the book.