Dr. Max Aue is a former Nazi officer who has survived the war and has reinvented himself as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual, and also a cold-blooded assassin and 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. Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and utterly original.
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