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001 2008030788
003 DLC
005 20090901065524.0
008 080710s2009 nyu 000 f eng
010 $a 2008030788
020 $a9780061353451 (hardcover)
020 $a9780061724473 (international ed.)
020 $a0061724475 (international ed.)
020 $a0061353450
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn232977865
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043 $ae-gx---
050 00 $aPQ3939.L58$bB513 2009
082 00 $a843/.92$222
100 1 $aLittell, Jonathan,$d1967-
240 10 $aBienveillantes.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe kindly ones :$ba novel /$cJonathan Littell ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper,$cc2009.
300 $a983 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aOriginally published as: Les beinveillantes. Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2006.
520 $aFictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern 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 this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself.
586 $aPrix Goncourt, 2006.
586 $aGrand Prix du roman, 2006.
610 20 $aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.$bSchutzstaffel$vFiction.
610 20 $aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.$bEinsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei$vFiction.
650 0 $aNazis$vFiction.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$vFiction.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$vFiction.
650 0 $aBisexual men$zGermany$vFiction.
655 0 $aHistorical fiction.
700 1 $aMandell, Charlotte.$4trl
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030788.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-d.html