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The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell
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Description for The Kindly Ones
paperback. Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 47. Weight in Grams: 684.
Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Goering, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself. Max ... Read more
Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Goering, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself. Max ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
992
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099513148
SKU
9780099513148
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About Jonathan Littell
Jonathan Littell was born in 1967 in New York of American parents and brought up and educated mainly in France. This novel, originally published in France as Les Bienveillantes, became a bestseller and won the coveted Prix Goncourt and the Academie Francaise's Prix de Litterature. Previously he worked for the humanitarian agency, Action contre la faim, in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan ... Read more
Reviews for The Kindly Ones
It is a great achievement to have made this horrific tale recounted by such a profoundly unsympathetic character so gripping...a great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come
Anthony Beevor
The Times
An extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader on a journey through some of ... Read more
Anthony Beevor
The Times
An extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader on a journey through some of ... Read more