Publisher’s Big Gamble on Divisive French Novel
Published: March 4, 2009
Harper paid about $1 million for Jonathan Littell’s “Kindly Ones,” a 983-page French novel narrated by a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, a book that has already aroused fierce passions, for and against.
![For free access to this article and more, you must be a registered member of NYTimes.com](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090305060440im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/apps/regi2/abstract_header_tocontinue.gif)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |