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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Emperor of Lies: A Novel (originale 2009; edizione 2011)di Steve Sem-Sandberg, Sarah Death (Traduttore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ett ämne som det skrivits hur många böcker om som helst men den här fyller väl sin plats. Dokumentär roman baserad på fakta. Riktigt stark läsupplevelse. Återigen blir man förvånad över människans grymhet och framförallt mot oskyldiga små barn. Detta brott mot mänskligheten vill och får aldrig glömmas bort. Ändå finns åsikterna och handlingarna i världen varje dag. Läs.... 'Labour is the ROCK OF ZION! Labour the FOUNDATION OF MY STATE! HARD, PUNISHING LABOUR!', 27 May 2012 By sally tarbox This review is from: The Emperor of Lies (Paperback) An amazing and horrific account of life in the Lodz Jewish ghetto - second largest in Poland. The head of the ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski, set to turning 'his' town into an industrial centre that would become invaluable to the Nazis, and so- he hoped- save the inhabitants. Certainly it was the longest lasting ghetto, surviving in part at least until 1944. Yet at the same time Rumkowski definitely feathered his nest on the proceeds, living comfortably and eating well while the rest starved. Not a consecutive narrative, but a series of 'snapshots' of the wartime experiences of the inhabitants, perhaps most terribly the regular demands by the Nazis that the ghetto periodically hand over set numbers of its people to go to 'work camps'. "They demand that we give them the very things most valuable to us- our children and our old people....I must now reach out my hands and ask: Brothers and sisters, give them to me. Give me your children!" Perhaps the part that will remain most vividly with me is the heartbreaking final section where one of the young men hides from transportation and attempts to live out a Polish winter with almost no food or heat in an almost deserted ghetto. The author doesn't attempt to solve the controversy that has always persisted about Rumkowski; I didn't finish the book with a 100% certainty of what I felt about him. Sem-Sandberg doesn't describe 'the Emperor's' feelings as he does other characters, and while he had huge personal failings, he was in an impossible political position. 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 time, Rumkowski had to accommodate the Germans, and eliminate all non-productive elements from the ghetto, amongst which were its children. His notorious "Give me your children" speech is included in the book. This novel offers descriptions of various characters (many of which actually existed) who lived in this ghetto as it descended into starvation and extermination during the war years. Some of these characters really come alive on the pages, but Rumkowski remains an enigmatic figure, an evil deus ex machina rather than the personification of hamletian ethical dilemmas. At the end the dry narrative style of the book, so effective on describing the hunger, fear and violence, veers off into a rather unfortunate magical realism. What I'll remember from this book are the odd combinations of human pettiness and heroism, ruthless selfishness and suicidal generosity amidst the gradual descent into misery and annihilation. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Saga Sem-Sandberg hefur hlotið nokkur verðlaun og er vissulega áhrifamikil en hann hefur líka verið gagnrýndur fyrir að velta sér upp úr grimmdinni og hræðilegum örlögum gyðinganna og höfða stöðugt til tilfinninga lesenda og ég verð að játa að mér finnst um of í þessari sögu. Þótt Helfararsaga gyðinga sé vissulega ömurleg þá má gera um of við það að velta sér upp stöðugt upp úr tilfinningasullinu. ( )