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Jonathan Littell

USA / France · Holocaust — fiction from the perpetrator's view

About

American-born writer who works in French. The Kindly Ones, narrated by an SS officer, won the Prix Goncourt in 2006.

Books in Database (1)

The Kindly Ones cover
The Kindly Ones 2006 · 992 pages

An SS intelligence officer narrates his own war — Babi Yar, Stalingrad, Auschwitz — with monstrous erudition and no remorse.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1941 Operation Barbarossa 1941 The Holocaust 1942 Battle of Stalingrad