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Jonathan Littell - The Kindly Ones (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
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.
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- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Modern Classics
- Published : 2006 (This Edition 2010 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9780099513148
- SKU : B003061
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"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 the darkest recesses of European history . . . reveals something that is desperate and depressing but profoundly important, now as ever." - The Observer.
"Everybody's talking about it . . . erudite, pitiless and mesmerising." - Financial Times.
"A compelling and savage tale, with a cold dispassionate eye that never flinches from the raw reality of mass-murder . . . a serious attempt to describe the terrors of the Nazi regime." - The Independent.
"The book rises magnificently to its own occasions, building out of its fact-crammed but stately sentences a vast and phosphorescent tableaux vivants seething with Dantesque detail." - The Guardian.
"To my taste it's a monumental work of literature, and horror in fact, much like The Road and 1984 are." - Goodreads Review.
The Author
Jonathan Littell is a writer living in Barcelona. He grew up in France and the United States and is a citizen of both countries. After acquiring his bachelor's degree he worked for a humanitarian organisation for nine years, leaving his job in 2001 in order to concentrate on writing.