The Emperor or Lies

Sem-Sandberg, Steve

ISBN 10: 0374139644 / ISBN 13: 9780374139643

Edité par FSG, NYNY, 2011

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1st American edition 1st printing NEW unopened copy. Fresh jacket boards text .No remainder or other markings. Size: 8vo.

N° de réf. du vendeur 13099

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Emperor or Lies
• Éditeur: FSG, NYNY
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374139644
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374139643
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st American.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • First Edition
  • Europe
  • Fiction

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Book by SemSandberg Steve

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