Time's Arrow

Martin Amis’ inventive investigation of a war criminal, which reverses time as one man’s life races backward towards an appalling past.

"The devastatingly sustained black irony stands in comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date."  -  Financial Times

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.

"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum…. [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."  –  Newsday

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction.  His novel Yellow Dog was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.