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“The force and clarity with which Littell renders the physical realities of war and mass murder are simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” (Time magazine )
“An alternately fascinating and impressively researched novel. . . . Its feverish voice is weirdly mesmerizing, the scope awesome.” (Newark Star Ledger )
“A world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force.” (The Daily Beast )
“A great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come.” (Antony Beevor, The Times (London) )
“The meticulously realistic main plot of The Kindly Ones is brilliantly organized and written…” (BookForum )
“Unquestionably brilliant…Littell is a gifted writer and what he achieves…is unparalleled…The novel [is] scrupulous in its period details and…generous in its scope” (The Nation )
“An extraordinarily powerful novel…. Above all, it is a sophisticated exploration of issues of morality, evil and luck… The novel as a whole brilliantly shows how ‘ordinary men’ become killers.” (The Observer (London) )
“An alternately fascinating and impressively researched novel. . . . Its feverish voice is weirdly mesmerizing, the scope awesome.” (Newark Star Ledger )
“A world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force.” (The Daily Beast )
“A great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come.” (Antony Beevor, The Times (London) )
“The meticulously realistic main plot of The Kindly Ones is brilliantly organized and written…” (BookForum )
“Unquestionably brilliant…Littell is a gifted writer and what he achieves…is unparalleled…The novel [is] scrupulous in its period details and…generous in its scope” (The Nation )
“An extraordinarily powerful novel…. Above all, it is a sophisticated exploration of issues of morality, evil and luck… The novel as a whole brilliantly shows how ‘ordinary men’ become killers.” (The Observer (London) )
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
