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Includes an excerpt from The order of the day.

Praise for The Order of the Day:‘A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster.’ Guardian‘A tightly paced and gripping read . . . Magnificently entertaining.’ Observer‘A profoundly important book, simple, beautiful, deeply disturbing.’ Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.

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February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 1...

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 q...

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Originally published in French as L'ordre du jour in 2017 by Actes Sud, Arels, France"--Copyright page.