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PLOT The book recounts the life of a German Holocaust Doctor in a disorienting reverse Chronology . The doctor, together with the reader, experiences time passing in reverse, so he becomes younger and younger during the course of the novel. It controversially portrays the doctor's Torture and Murder of Jew s. So while at a Concentration Camp , he returns the Dead to life and heals the sick, rather than the opposite. The broader image presented is that all those that died in the Holocaust are revived and returned to their homes. Eventually they become children, then babies, and then reenter their mother's wombs, where they finally cease to exist. The book is narrated from the perspective of the child-like lost soul or conscience of the main character. TRIVIA As Amis noted in an Author's Note at the beginning of his earlier novel '' London Fields '', he originally considered ''Time's Arrow'' as a title for that book. |
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