The Kindly Ones

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Littell Klappentext A controversial novel about a fictionalised figure, a family man and factory owner in post-war France who was a former SS officer and active participant in Nazi atrocities looking back on his life with a dispassionate eye. 'An extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader on a journey through some of the darkest recesses of European history' "Observer" Zusammenfassung Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Littell, Littell Jonathan
• Mitarbeit: Charlotte Mandell (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780099513148
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951314-8
• Seiten: 992
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 42 mm
• Serien: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / War & Military, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), eichmann; nazis; eastern front; war fiction