The emperor of lies
By: Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
Contributors: Death, Sarah
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780374139643
Subjects: Jewish ghettos; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); History; Fiction
Work titles: Fattiga i Lóđź
Description: Follows the World War II tale of Jewish ghetto director Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who in an ambitious effort to render the ghetto an invaluable industrial complex makes compromises that have extraordinary consequences.
Notes: "Originally published in 2009 by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden, as De fattiga i Lóđź;  English translation originally published in 2011 by Faber and Faber Ltd., Great Britain"--T.p. verso.