The Kindly Ones

Informationen zum Autor 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 Académie Française's Prix de Littérature. Previously he worked for the humanitarian agency, Action contre la faim, in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He now lives in Spain. 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 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, Göring, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself. Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Littell, Littell Jonathan
• Assisted by: Charlotte Mandell (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780099513148
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951314-8
• No. of pages: 992
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 42 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 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