Yo Zefu Men Gere No Tobo / Original Title: LA DISPARITION DE JOSEF MENGELE (Kaigai Bungaku Selection)

[Machine Translation] Joseph Mengele, Nazi physician who transported Jews to the Auschwitz extermination camps and dropped them off at the drop-off point, where they were sorted into forced labor and gas chambers. He was obsessed with eugenics, especially the study of twins, and conducted unimaginable experiments on them. He then went to Argentina in 1949 and remained hidden in South America until his death on a Brazilian beach in 1979, living under various pseudonyms without being caught or brought to justice. It was not until the 1990s that his death was confirmed by DNA analysis of his remains. How did Mengele survive? What kind of life did he lead as a fugitive? This is a masterpiece of a novel that approaches the truth of Mengele's mysterious later life and the essence of human nature with a journalistic approach and a hard-hitting style. Winner of the Renaudot Prize.

ヨーゼフ・メンゲレ、アウシュヴィッツ絶滅収容所に移送され、降車場に降ろされたユダヤ人を、強制労働へ、ガス室へと選別したナチスの医師。優生学に取り憑かれた彼は、とりわけ双子の研究に熱中し、想像を絶する実験を重ねた。1945年のアウシュヴィッツ解放時に研究資料を持って逃亡。その後、49年にアルゼンチンに渡った彼は、79年にブラジルの海岸で死亡するまで南米に潜み、捕まることも、裁かれることもなく様々な偽名のもと、生き続けたのだった。そして、その死が遺骨のDNA鑑定によって確認されたのは90年代になってからのことだ。なぜメンゲレは生き延びることができたのか?彼は、どのような逃亡生活を送ったのか?謎に満ちた後半生の真実と、人間の本質に、ジャーナリスティックな手法と硬質な筆致で迫った傑作小説。ルノードー賞受賞作。