In English
Goncourt 2006 · Winner
The Kindly Ones
Les Bienveillantes
Jonathan Littell · 39 when first published
Novel · 983 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Long after the war, Max Aue, now director of a lace factory in northern France, writes down his path as an SS officer, from the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 to the fall of Berlin.