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La disparition de Josef Mengele

by Olivier Guez

Prix Renaudot · 2017 · Winner
GrassetLiterary FictionHistorical FictionISBN 9782246855880

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About This Book

A novelistic reconstruction of Josef Mengele's decades of hiding in Argentina and Brazil after World War II, tracing his paranoid deterioration in a chilling portrait of a man who committed evil and felt no remorse.

About the Author

Olivier Guez is a French journalist, screenwriter, and novelist born in 1974 in Strasbourg. He studied political science and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Germany, Israel, and the United States. His background in journalism is evident in the documentary precision of his prose fiction. Read more →

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