{"product_id":"book-adua","title":"The Kindly Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Simply astounding… . \u003cem\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/em\u003e is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s \u003cem\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/em\u003e has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel… a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force,” (Michael Korda, \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e). Destined to join the pantheon of classic epics of war such as Tolstoy’s \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e and Vasily Grossman’s \u003cem\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/em\u003e offers a profound and gripping experience of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. 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 in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss—even Hitler himself—play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, \u003cem\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/em\u003e is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity—and the reader cannot look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49345720746288,"sku":"BDadua","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/adua-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776845704","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-adua","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}