The Emperor of Lies - Brossura

Steve Sem-Sandberg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571259219 ISBN 13: 9780571259212

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2012

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

'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

Descrizione del libro:

The Emporer of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg is a compelling tale of power, corruption and compromise from one of Scandinavia's most revered authors.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571259219
• ISBN 13: 9780571259212
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672