num_pages: 544
description: Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the war he left France, never to be brought to justice.Early on in his career Louis married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from Tasmania, equally practised in the arts of fantasy and deception, and together they had a child, Anne whom they abandoned in England. Her tragic story is woven through the narrative.In Carmen Callil's masterful, elegiac and sometimes darkly comic account, Darquier's rise during the years leading up to the Second World War mirrors the rise of French anti-Semitism. Epic, haunting, the product of extraordinary research, this is a study in powerlessness, hatred and the role of remembrance.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
language: English
title: Bad Faith: A Story of Family and Fatherland
titlecomplete: Bad Faith: A Story of Family and Fatherland
genres: France, Biography, War, European History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Holocaust, 20th Century, History, World War II
ratings_count: 139
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orwell Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
publisher: Vintage Books