The Emperor of Lies: A Novel

By Steve Sem-Sandberg

Book Overview

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lodz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a 63-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director--and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374139644
• ISBN13: 9780374139643
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.4" x 6.4"