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Martin Amis's masterpiece, "a literary master dipped in enchantment," was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. The ugly crimes of Nazi war criminals in World War II are reproduced in flashbacks: concentration camps, Jewish ghettos, human experiments... Every detail described is shocking, and every word is filled with anger! "Time's Arrow: The Nature of the Crime" tells the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly in flashback. He "rewinds" his life from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly respectable life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz as a youth, to his birth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb and his impending death. He followed the entire world in rewind, "eating" in the toilet, waiting for letters to be "born" from the flames, injuring people turned into healing wounds, shooting civilians turned into saving lives, burning corpses turned into returning souls, dismembering living bodies turned into regenerating people... This book once again reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history in a seemingly humorous way, and completely subverts the reading experience of readers. Among the works describing the Nazis, "Time's Arrow: The Nature of Crime" opens up astonishing and profound insights for us.

A surreal understanding of the Holocaust, Reverse Narrative offers an ambitious and playful way to think about Nazi atrocities. The novel uses a "time inversion" technique to tell the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly. He begins his life like a "video rewind" from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly decent life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz in his youth, to his childbirth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb... In a seemingly humorous way, he reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history, completely subverting the reader's reading experience.

Nominated for the Booker Prize by Martin Amis, the "godfather of literature" in the UK, it is a surreal fable about exposure, murder, love and sex. "London Venue" sets the story in 1999, but the target of satire is still Britain in the 1980s. The story describes the process of a thirty-four-year-old prostitute (Nicola Sickles) about to be killed, "an old story between men and women." The question is: who will kill her? Is it the sleazy liar Keith Tallent, a true London drinker, or the rich, tall, emotionally dependent Guy Clinch? But there was no definite answer to this question until the end. This novel skillfully expresses the "apocalyptic complex" full of death anxiety. Suicide, murder, being killed or raped, these virtual violent images constitute the overall death atmosphere of the novel. The death here is not only the death of the body, but also the death of the spirit, the death of faith, the death of the soul. It is the end of the world, the end of existence, and the suicide of mankind before the catastrophe.