The Emperor Of Lies

Author : Steve Sem-Sandberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429968842
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Lies written by Steve Sem-Sandberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the August Prize, Sweden's most important literary award A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title To be published in more than twenty-five languages A major international literary event "This is real literature. A great work of fiction." —Per Svensson, Dagens Nyheter In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lódz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director—and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. A haunting, profoundly challenging novel, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four and a half years. 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. These compromises would have extraordinary consequences not only for Rumkowski but for everyone living in the ghetto. Drawing on the detailed records of life in Lódz, Steve Sem-Sandberg, in a masterful feat of literary imagination and empathy, captures the full panorama of human resilience and probes deeply into the nature of evil. Through the dramatic narrative, he asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime motivated by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? How did the inhabitants of the ghetto survive in such extreme circumstances? A critically acclaimed breakout bestseller in Sweden, The Emperor of Lies introduces a writer of great significance to American readers. The archives detail daily life in the Lodz ghetto, under the reign of Rumkowki, but it takes a writer with Sem-Sandberg's singular talent to help us understand the truth of this chilling history.

Author : Steve Sem-Sandberg
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 9780887842597
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Lies written by Steve Sem-Sandberg and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the story of Mordecai Rumkowski, a Nazi sympathizer, who ruled over the Polish ghetto of Lodz for four and a half years.

Author : Spencer Wise
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488080569
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Shoes written by Spencer Wise and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evocative…The Emperor of Shoes underscores the extent to which the promise of economic opportunity still moves people across great distances on our planet…Wise [has] written a novel of our times…”—New York Times Book Review *A Library Journal Best Debut of Summer 2018* From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant’s vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex’s own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his sympathies begin to shift. She is an embedded organizer of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow laborers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite? Deftly plotted and vibrantly drawn, The Emperor of Shoes is a timely meditation on idealism, ambition, father-son rivalry and cultural revolution, set against a vivid backdrop of social and technological change.

Author : Louis Begley
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307761932
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wartime Lies written by Louis Begley and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.

Author : Michelle Diener
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451684444
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Conspiracy written by Michelle Diener and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early nineteenth-century England, this vivid and romantic historical novel goes from the most elegant ballrooms of London to the city’s most tawdry slums, as a spirited young woman helps unravel a plot by Napoleon to bleed England of all its gold. Chance led to Charlotte Raven’s transformation from chimney sweep to wealthy, educated noblewoman, but she still walks a delicate tightrope between two worlds, unable to turn her back on the ruthless crime lord who was once her childhood protector. When Lord Edward Durnham is tapped to solve the mystery of England’s rapidly disappearing gold, his search leads him to the stews of London, and Charlotte becomes his intriguing guide to the city’s dark, forbidding underworld. But as her involvement brings Charlotte to the attention of men who have no qualms about who they hurt, and as Edward forges a grudging alliance with the dangerous ghosts of Charlotte’s former life, she faces a choice: to continue living in limbo, or to close the door on the past and risk her heart and her happiness on an unpredictable future.

Author : Steve White
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618241877
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor of Dawn written by Steve White and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Empire in Danger The Empire is in danger, with a weak sybarite on the throne and rebellion rising in outlying regions of the Galaxy and on Earth itself. Then the Emperor is assassinated, and General Ivar Brady-Schiovana is forced to declare himself Emperor. But hope appears in the persons of two men and a woman who are rumored to be legendary heroes. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Graham Salisbury
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385386567
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes of the Emperor written by Graham Salisbury and published by Ember. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers. Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American soldiers on a secret mission to a small island off the coast of Mississippi. Here they are given a special job, one that only they can do. Eddy’s going to help train attack dogs. He’s going to be the bait.

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585678457
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When You Lunch with the Emperor written by Ludwig Bemelmans and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279936
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Ocean Park written by Stephen L. Carter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

Author : RuNyx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087945422
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor written by RuNyx and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante Maroni, the heir to an underworld empire, and Amara, his housekeeper's daughter, find themselves entangled in a story that begins with unrequited childhood infatuation and grows into a tale of forbidden love, trauma, and power.