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Benefactors

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Benefactors
19.99 €
This historical novel by a French writer of American origin is written on behalf of the protagonist - SS officer Maximilian Aue, one of the rank-and-file executors of the Nazi program of "the final solution of the Jewish question". The book is set on the Eastern Front (Ukraine, North Caucasus, Stalingrad), in Poland, Germany, Hungary and France. In 2006, "The Benefactresses" won the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix of the French Academy, the book became a European bestseller, translated into 20 languages to date. Critics celebrated the "absolute historical accuracy" of the novel, calling it "an outstanding literary and historical phenomenon" (Pierre Nora). England's The Times wrote of The Benefactresses as "a great literary event to which readers and scholars will turn for decades to come" and placed the novel among the five most important works of fiction about World War II. The book is being released in a new edition of the translation.
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