In this icy, knife's-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis ('at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best' --Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction - From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest 'The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art.' --Newsday Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves 'out of blackest sleep' to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America. As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in