Max
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3,5 • 2 notes
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Baby Max is the perfect prototype of the Nazi eugenics programme; he is the ideal size, he has the correct colour hair and flawless blue eyes. Raised in an ideology driven by hatred and ruled by fear, Max is taught to endure pain and be brave at all costs. But as he is drawn further into the horror of war, Max must fight to untangle the truth from the lie.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
French author Cohen-Scali's U.S. debut chronicles the rise and fall of the Third Reich through the eyes of a child. Konrad von Kebnersol (dubbed Max by his birth mother) is a product of Lebensborn, a top-secret Nazi eugenics program designed to propagate the Aryan race. Baptized by Hitler and raised by the Nazi Party, Max serves as bait to aid in the kidnapping of Polish children, then enrolls at the Kalish school to facilitate the abductees' Germanization. There, Max meets Lukas, an older boy to whom Max bears a striking resemblance. The two become like brothers, so it's a shock to Max when Lukas confides that he's Jewish. Unfortunately, Cohen-Scali's plot relies too heavily on coincidence, and Max's narration lacks nuance (even as a fetus, he narrates like a mustache-twirling villain); although Lukas's relationship with Max forms the book's emotional core, Cohen-Scali waits 200 pages to introduce him. The novel endeavors to teach an important lesson about the indoctrination and exploitation of German youth, but excessive exposition and an awkward structure muddy the message. Ages 15 up.
