“Sulphuric Acid” by Amélie Nothomb (2005)

“The time came when the suffering of others was not enough for them; they needed the spectacle of it, too.”

Like the last review, this is a book I read many years ago and wanted to get back to.

In what is perhaps the not-too-distant future, reality television is looking for something new. Those in charge come up with Concentration, a death camp as entertainment. Contestants don’t apply, they’re kidnapped off the street, loaded into cattle trucks and taken off to be put in the camp under the watc...