The Kindly Ones

A Nazi recounts his unsettling journey through WWII in this prize-winning novel: “a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force” (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast ). A literary sensation when it was first published in France, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones was awarded both the Gran Prix du roman de l’Academie and the Prix Goncourt. Second World War historian Antony Beevor called it “a great work of literary fiction, to which readers and scholars will turn for decad