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008    090401t20092009nyu           000 f eng  
010      2008030788
020    9780061353451 |qhardcover
020    9780061724473 |qinternational edition
020    0061724475 |qinternational edition
020    0061353450
035    (OCoLC)ocn232977865
035    147302
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041 1  eng |hfre
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dWAU |dNMP |dCDX |dBWX |dQ2Z |dIAY
050 00 PQ3939.L58 |bB513 2009
100 1  Littell, Jonathan, |d1967-
240 10 Bienveillantes. |lEnglish
245 14 The kindly ones : |ba novel / |cJonathan Littell ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bHarper, |c[2009]
264  4  |c©2009
300    983 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    Originally published as: Les beinveillantes. Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2006.
520    Fictional 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    Prix Goncourt, 2006.
586    Grand Prix du roman, 2006.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bSchutzstaffel |vFiction.
610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bEinsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei |vFiction.
650  0 Nazis |vFiction.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities |vFiction.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vFiction.
650  0 Bisexual men |zGermany |vFiction.
655  7 Historical fiction. |2lcgft
650  7 Bisexual men. |2homoit
655  7 Novels. |2lcgft
700 1  Mandell, Charlotte, |etranslator.
852 0   |bstacks |hPQ3939.L58 |iB513 2009