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.