Les Bienveillantes

Here's some information about him. Though he is very young, he already has lived a full life. His parents are of Lithuanian parents I read elsewhere one time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Littell

Thanks, Mimi, I hadn't seen this. Pretty amazing how fast he wrote the book.

Ellen, Here's a review from last month in the NY TIMES.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/books/07...nyt&emc=rss

NPR has an article about an American, Jonathan Littell, whose book about the memoirs of an SS agent in France in WWII, won the Prix Goncourt, the highest literary prize in France. The 900-page book, written entirely in French, was an immediate best-seller in France. You can listen to the article here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...700&sc=emaf