The Emperor of Lies (Paperback)

from richardderus

Rating: I really do not know. Say three stars just to put a value here. The Book Report: "There's no business like Shoah business." It's cynical, it's infuriating, and it's inevitable that this huge, horrific, and richly dramatic story should be exploited in a million different ways. This novel m...

from KarenAJeff

Heard about this book on Eleanor Wachtel's Writers and Company. Thought it sounded interesting. However, I really couldn't get into it. Fro me there were too many characters, or perhaps because I'm not familiar with Polish names I just kept getting confused.

from fist

During WWII, the Lodz ghetto was the last to be evacuated. Its chairman Rumkowski had turned it into a special production zone, whose inhabitants produced useful output for the German war economy and thus were spared the transfer to the extermination camps until very late in the war. At the same ...

from pjeanne

Glad I read it - didn't know anything about the Lodz getto/Rumkowski, but found the structure and language confusing at times. Not sure why this needed to be a novel instead of nonfiction - left me wondering which parts actually happened and which were created by the author

from Chatterbox

It took me a while to face picking this book up and reading it; not just its sheer heft (650 pages...) but also the dark subject matter, the story of the Lodz ghetto during World War II. When I did, the first 20 or 30 pages weren't all that encouraging, as it first began to read more like a docum...