The Emperor of Lies

Name: The Emperor of Lies
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Steve Sem-Sandberg
ISBN: 9780571259212

Steve Sem-Sandberg

05/01/2012
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Emperor of Lies par Steve Sem-Sandberg

Résumé

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lódz ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience, and questions the nature of good and evil.