The Kindly Ones

　　Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, The Kindly Ones is the fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man after the war while remaining a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate 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.