The Emperor of Lies: A Novel

by Steve Sem-Sandberg

Book Overview

"Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved...I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me...Brave and brilliant."--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of L dz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250007631
• ISBN13: 9781250007636
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Picador
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 7.9"