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Vuillard, Eric

 
9781509889976: The Order of the Day: Winner of Prix Goncourt 2017
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509889973 ISBN 13: 9781509889976
Verlag: Picador, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' - Guardian

Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt

Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two. What emerges is a fascinating and incredibly moving account of failed diplomacy, broken relationships, and the catastrophic momentum which led to conflict.

The titans of German industry – set to prosper under the Nazi government – gather to lend their support to Adolf Hitler. The Austrian Chancellor realizes too late that he has wandered into a trap, as Hitler delivers the ultimatum that will lay the groundwork for Germany’s annexation of Austria. Winston Churchill joins Neville Chamberlain for a farewell luncheon held in honour of Joachim von Ribbentrop: German Ambassador to England, soon to be Foreign Minister in the Nazi government, and future defendant at the Nuremberg trials.

Suffused with dramatic tension, this unforgettable novel tells the tragic story of how the actions of a few powerful men brought the world to the brink of war.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Éric Vuillard is a writer and filmmaker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books, including Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d’Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud). He won the 2017 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, for L’ordre du jour.

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WINNER OF THE 2017 PRIX GONCOURT
‘A profoundly important book, simple, beautiful, deeply disturbing.’ Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

‘A tightly paced and gripping read . . . Vuillard has written a magnificently entertaining account that manages to capture the wild and uneven emotional climate of the 1930s and speaks too to our own era of liars, demagogues and politics as farce, which, as Vuillard deftly shows us, can slide all too quickly into tragedy.’ Observer

‘Remarkable . . . It captures the bizarre blend of wishful thinking, clownish self-importance, and cold calculation that characterized many of the Nazis’ powerful enablers.’ New Yorker

‘A powerful story you read in one go, with astonishment and dread.’ La Presse

‘Brilliant . . . a lightning-like transformation of a tired, old, and far too often told story into a shocking new narrative.’ Der Spiegel

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509889973
ISBN 13 
9781509889976
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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