For all the millions of words that have been written about the second world war, there is an extraordinary level of agreement about much of the story. The rise of nazism in Germany in the 1930s, for example, is nearly always seen as inexorable and un ...
For all the millions of words that have been written about the second world war, there is an extraordinary level of agreement about much of the story. The rise of nazism in Germany in the 1930s, for example, is nearly always seen as inexorable and unstoppable. This account is, however, challenged in this book, which was the surprise winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt – the most prestigious French literary prize – but which was already a bestseller by the time that jury came to make up its mind. It sold so well partly because it is a tightly paced and gripping read, but also because – as Vuillard has made clear in interviews – it is supposed be a book about the present as well as the past...
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