Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Kindly Ones
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- Publisher:
- HarperCollins, 12/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780061353468
- Item number:
- 5043546
- Volume:
- 992 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2010
- Weight:
- 1221 g
- Format:
- 213 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 57 mm
- Release date:
- 13.12.2013
- Series:
- Harper Perennial
- Note
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Blurb
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, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss---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.
Biography
Jonathan Littell, 1967 in New York geboren, in Frankreich aufgewachsen, Studium in Yale (USA). Zwischen 1993 und 2001 arbeitete er für die humanitäre Organisation "Aktion gegen den Hunger" (ACF) in Bosnien und Afgha - nistan, im Kongo und in Tschetschenien. Littell lebt mit seiner Familie in Barcelona. Für seinen Roman Die Wohlgesinnten (dt. 2008) erhielt er 2006 den Grand Prix du Roman der Académie Française und den prestige - trächtigsten französischen Literaturpreis Prix Goncourt.
