Time's Arrow is a novel by Martin Amis that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. The book recounts the life of a German Holocaust doctor in reverse chronology. Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Chronology is the science of locating events in time. ...

The book was controversial because it portrays the life of a doctor who tortured and murdered Jews, but in reverse order. 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, returned to their homes and so on. A controversy is a contentious dispute, a disagreement over which parties are actively arguing. ... The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg was a famous torture device, though misconceptions about it do exist. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... This page deals with the cessation of life. ...