"Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved...I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me...Brave and brilliant." Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf HallIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director. 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 million Jews. Driven by a titanic ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it and himself indispensable to the Nazi regime. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz Ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience and asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies?"
- ISBN:
- 9781250007636
- 9781250007636
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 03-07-2012
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Picador USA
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 664
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210x140x29mm
- Weight:
- 0.49kg
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