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The Emperor of Lies

The Emperor of Lies

Author(s): Steve Sem-Sandberg

Location(s): Lodz

Genre(s): Historical

Era(s): 1940-45

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In 1940, Mordechai Rumkowski, the “leader” of the Lodz Ghetto, made a dreadful pact with the Nazis. His community would produce goods for them in return for minimal food and welfare. This impressive novel revisits five years of barbaric history, using news summaries and photographs, along with interlocking family and workplace stories, many of which end unresolved as people are killed or just disappear. Sunday Times

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‘The Emperor of Lies is a novel about heart-wrenching suffering and extraordinary evil, transformed by Sem-Sandberg’s talents into an irresistible work of fiction, absorbing from first page to last… Dickens would have been very...

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