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Flies is, by the way, an end-of-the-world novel, though not normally remembered as such: the reason the boys are flying over the island, before their crash, is that they have been packed off by their parents to save them from a massive nuclear war.
Anyway, in recent years, these spectacles (usually broken) have been cropping up again and again, each time on the cover of a book concerned with the fate of various more-or-less innocents at the hands of the Nazis.
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The Guardian might call Liquidation a powerfull book, by the way, but my own relative disappointment with it leads me to suggest you read Imre Kertész's The Pathseeker instead, which is a very nifty little book.
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