The Kindly Ones (Prix Goncourt Winner) Jonathan Littell ebook#
Page: 994
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ISBN: 9780061972966
Publisher: HarperCollins
“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — Time A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force,” (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast). Destined to join the pantheon of classic epics of war such as Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, The Kindly Ones offers a profound and gripping experience of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music, he is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss—even Hitler himself—play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, The Kindly Ones is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity—and the reader cannot look away.Alum wins French literary award Nov 10, 2006 — The Kindly Ones: Jonathan Littell: Hardcover Published to impressive critical acclaim in France in 2006, it went on to win the Prix Goncourt, that country's most prestigious literary award, and sparked “THE KINDLY ONES”: HOLOCAUST NOVEL Mar 16, 2009 — Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2008 and the Bad Sex Award The Kindly Ones: Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2008 and the Bad Sex Award 2009 : Littell, Jonathan: Amazon.com.be: Books. The Kindly Ones: Littell, Jonathan 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 NDiaye becomes first black woman to win top French book Nov 2, 2009 — Conversation with Laurent Binet - Kill Your Darlings Laurent Binet's HHhH was released in 2010 in his native France to wide critical acclaim, winning the coveted Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, the famed prize by Jonathan Littell - The Kindly Ones Awards ; Bad Sex in Fiction Award (Winner – 2009) ; French-American Foundation Translation Prize (Shortlist – Fiction – 2009) ; Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Bad sex award goes to Jonathan Littell's The Kindly OnesThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell May 1, 2009 — 'The Kindly Ones,' by Jonathan Littell Mar 15, 2009 — The Kindly Ones: A Novel Audiobook, by Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones audiobook, by Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer. Winner of the 2006 Prix Goncourt.