The Emperor of Lies

Steve Sem-Sandberg: trans. Sarah Death

ISBN 10: 0571259200 / ISBN 13: 9780571259205

Edité par Faber and Faber, London, 2011

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Emperor of Lies
• Éditeur: Faber and Faber, London
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571259200
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571259205
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

In 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, 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 Lodz 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 des auteurs

Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2016. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.

Sarah Death is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the UK-based journal Swedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson's Snow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England.