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Title :
The Kindly Ones
Authors :
Jonathan Littell
Publisher :
Harper & Collins
Year :
2009
ISBN :
978-0061353451
Language :
English
Description :
Here it is ! Les Bienveillantes, the astonishing novel by Jonathan Littell which won the Goncourt prize and the French Academy's Great Prize of the Novel in 2006, is now available in English as The Kindly Ones.
In the late 1980's, Maximilien Aue, the manager of a lace factory in Northern France - a quiet French-German man ­ is about to retire.
40 years earlier he was a disciplined SS officer, in charge of checking the procedures and supervising the "elimination" operations taking place on the Eastern Front.
Through an autobiographical enquiry of a kind, he's going to track himself back...
The Kindly Ones is also available in French and in German.
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