The Kindly Ones Audiobook by Jonathan Littell

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/278/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Kindly Ones Author: Jonathan Littell Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Length: 39 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 03-03-09 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 182 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: 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 in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. 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 and at Auschwitz; and he 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, Göring, Speer, Heyrich, Höss, and Hitler himself. A supreme historical epic and a haunting work of fiction, Jonathan Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and utterly original. Published to impressive critical acclaim in France in 2006, it went on to win the Prix Goncourt, that country's most prestigious literary award, and sparked a broad range of responses and questions from readers: How does fiction deal with the nature of human evil? How should a novel encompass the Holocaust? At what point do history and fiction come together and where do they separate?