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The Kindly Ones (Paperback)(English / French)
$16.62 - Save $0.38 (2%) - RRP $17.00 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Kindly OnesMassive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original.
Full description- Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
- Published: 02 February 2010
- Format: Paperback 983 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780061353468 ISBN 10: 0061353469
- Sales rank: 95,825
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Full description for The Kindly Ones
Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The "Times" of London "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music, he is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, GOring, Speer, Heydrich, HOss--even Hitler himself--play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, "The Kindly Ones" is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity--and the reader cannot look away.
