The Emperor of Lies

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781770890411

<p><strong>Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize</strong></p><p>In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director -- and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. </p><p>From one of Sweden's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, <em>The Emperor of Lies</em> chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four 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. Drawing on the detailed records of life in the Lódz ghetto, Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience and probes deeply into the nature of evil. He asks the most difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? </p><p>Winner of the August Prize, Sweden’s most important literary award, <em>The Emperor of Lies</em> is a haunting, profoundly challenging novel. </p>