Publishers roll dice on shocking French work by Yank Jonathan Littell
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A novel about a Nazi officer with a taste for sodomy and incest might not scream “bestseller”—especially at nearly 1,000 pages long and translated from French. Yet Jonathan Littell’s
The Kindly Ones topped charts in France and precipitated a bidding war among US publishers. HarperCollins...
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