The Emperor of Lies - Couverture rigide

Sem-sandberg, Steve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374139644 ISBN 13 : 9780374139643

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2011

Synopsis

Book by SemSandberg Steve

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Sem-Sandberg's achievement is that this history becomes but a background to a multitude of vivid characters, whose experiences he weaves expertly into a mesmerising whole ... a novel about heart-wrenching suffering and extraordinary evil, transformed by Sem-Sandberg's talents into an irresistible work of fiction.' -- Guardian >> Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved . . . stunning. -- Hilary Mantel >> Scene after scene comes vividly to life. . . A memorable examination of human resilience and the will to survive. . . a most distinguished addition to the literature of the holocaust.' -- Daily Express >> This brutally vivid narrative [is] a compelling homage to a community wiped off the map. -- Scotland on Sunday >> With this book, Sem-Sandberg steps into the magic circle of leading European writers. . . It is the humanity of the storytelling, so rich and vivid and yet under such complete control, which entices the readers of this dark book . . . [a] masterly novel. --Independent >> Sem-Sandberg's recreation of the Lodz ghetto, utterly convincing, rich in sympathy and understanding, is more a lightly fictionalised documentary than a work of the imagination. --Allan Massie, Scotsman

Irresistable . . . absorbing from first page to last . . . Dickens would have been very pleased with this novel.' -- --Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. 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 Lódz ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience, and questions the nature of evil. He 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?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0374139644
• ISBN 13: 9780374139643
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 664