Emperor of lies
Pocketbok. Faber & Faber. 2012. 664 sidor.
Gott skick.
Storpocket: 126 x 198 x 41mm. Orig.titel: De fattiga I Łódź. Språk: engelska/ English. --- A compelling tale of power, corruption and compromise from one of Scandinavia's most revered authors.
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman. Mysterious, ambiguous and monarchical, 'King Chaim' forced adults and children alike to work punishing hours providing supplies for the German military. Thousands of others were transported and never seen again.
Was Rumkowski an accessory to the Nazi regime, driven by lust for power, or was he a pragmatic strategist, actively saving Jewish lives through apparent collaboration? Steve Sem-Sandberg draws on genuine chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto to capture the full panorama of human resilience, and to question the nature of good and evil.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780571259212
- Titel
- The Emperor of Lies
- Författare
- Sem-Sandberg, Steve
- Förlag
- Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Omfång
- 664 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 126 x 196 mm Ryggbredd 41 mm
- Vikt
- 515 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto, this title captures the panorama of human resilience, and questions the nature of good and evil.
