The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell

Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original. 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, and relentlessly fascinating, ambitious beyond scope, by Michael Korda ( Ike, With Wings Like Eagles ). 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.