While the other members of his 1980s gang – Barnes, McEwan, Rushdie and Ishiguro – have all bagged a Booker and other awards, Amis remained relatively trophy-less. So why did the big literary prizes elude him?
Monthly Spotlight: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Monthly Spotlight: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
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Although one of the best-known writers of his generation, Martin Amis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize just once, in 1991, for this highly inventive depiction of a Nazi war criminal whose life story is told in reverse
In Time’s Arrow events occur in a reverse chronology, as time races into the past and the main character becomes younger and younger. The book tells the story of an ex-Nazi, Dr Tod T. Friendly. Friendly is possessed of two separate voices, one running backward from his death, the other running forward, in a vain attempt to flee his inescapable past.
From reading guides and extracts to illuminating features, find out more about our May Monthly Spotlight here.
Time's Arrow
- By
- Martin Amis
- Published by
- Jonathan Cape
Martin Amis’ inventive investigation of a war criminal, which reverses time as one man’s life races backward towards an appalling past
Features
- Book recommendations
10 of the best genre-bending Booker Prize-nominated novels
- Book extract
An extract from Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
- Reading guides
Reading guide: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
- Long read
- First person
