Banality_of_Eva
THE OFFICE meets THE ZONE OF INTEREST - a darkly funny, unsettling novel about ambition, order, and the seductions of excellence.
Berlin, 1935.
Eva Albrecht is too smart for every room she enters. She watches men take credit for her work, watches incompetence promoted over her capability, until she meets someone who actually sees what she can do.
Adolf Eichmann is a man without confidence or direction-pale, narrow-shouldered, the kind of man people look through rather than at. Every failure has taught him to disappear. But through Eva's gaze, he realizes the man he could become, if he can only believe in himself.
Together they'll build something unprecedented: an assembly line where every improvement means more suffering-and they will learn what it means to be essential to someone, even when what you're essential for is unforgivable.
Equal parts satire and elegy, The Banality of Eva asks what happens when the habits that make us good workers make us evil people.
Ambrose Ilya Slopovich was born in 1971 to a Ukrainian-Jewish father who fled Odessa and a lapsed Episcopalian mother from rural Virginia. After practicing administrative law in Washington, D.C., he left legal practice to study the politics and literature of Weimar Germany.
He is the author of several works of literary and cultural criticism, including The Arithmetic of Irony: Robert Musil and the Failure of Rational Man, World as Footnote: Egon Friedell and the Comic History of Catastrophe, and Secondhand Symbols: Language and Power in Post-Soviet Fiction. His first novel, Bureaucratic Sublime, appeared in 2020.
Slopovich divides his time between Arlington, Virginia and Poland, where he teaches American and comparative literature at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.