Time's Arrow - Martin Amis

This is famous for describing a man's life backwards from death to birth, and for the controversial treatment of some extremely touchy subject matter. There is a second stylistic device to complicate matters, in that the narrator shares a body with the protagonist but is a separate consciousness , unable to affect events.

The point is that the novel's central events make more sense in reverse than they otherwise do, at least to a person as morally culpable as "Tod Friendly". The split personality and reverse chronology is a guilt response to a catastrophic ethical failure.

There are the usual entertaining Amis jokes and whiz-bang flourishes, but this is a thought-provoking and deeply serious work.