The winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt, a prize in French literature given by the académie Goncourt to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, is available for Persian readers.
The “Order of the Day” is a historical work about shady business dealings behind the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. The book was written by French writer and film director Éric Vuillard, 50, and published in April 2017.
Rendered into Persian by Fatemeh Qahramani, the 120-page book is published by Majid Publication, Honaronline wrote on its Persian website.
The opening scene of the novel is set on February 20, 1933, an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter. A meeting of 24 German captains of industry and senior Nazi officials is being held in secret in the plush lounge of the Reichstag building. They are there to solicit funds for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party.
Though the book is based on true events, the author considers it a novel, “because there is no such a thing as neutral history,” New York Times quoted Vuillard as saying. “Elements of realism make novels powerful; I don’t think that a novel is about imagination.”
