Time's Arrow is a great read. Another one of Martin Amis' on my shelf. Its one of the most adrenalizing works that I have encountered.As you stride though it, and time goes backward, quite many aspects of life seem to be upside down. While others like relationships appear to be the same, whether followed in a backward or forward manner. He touches upon the brutality and the lucidly ignoble acts of inhumanity by the Nazis in a skillful way. Quite aptly said, its the only way, those acts can ever make sense. As you enter the time when he was a German Holocaust Doctor, "THE WORLD IS going to start making sense...", and you witness that "Creation is easy. Its ugly" as men, women and children are gifted a human body in the ovens in those camps and reunited eventually.
Its interesting to see how backward chronology makes some phases of life "make sense" whilst other utterly cynical; few so appealing whilst others damn disgraceful, and yet others remain changeless.
Any memoirs of Adolf Hitler's dream of a race...the third Reich are gruesome (unlike this one). A gripping thought remains - Each of Albert Einstein, MK Gandhi and Adolf Hitler impregnated this world with their everlasting "contributions" about at the same time. Doesn't it resemble the concept of Trinity in Hinduism - the creator, the keeper and the destroyer of life ?
Overall, loved it! :)
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