The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

Original title: The kindly ones

first published 2009 Harper, 2009 983 pages

"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of t...

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The kindly ones edition · 2009 · Chatto & Windus · 983 pages · 9780701181659
The Kindly Ones ebook · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780061775475
The kindly ones edition · 2009 · Harper · 983 pages · 9780061353451

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