Books by Steve Sem-Sandberg
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review 1: Translated from the Swedish, this is a harrowing depiction of Chaim Rumkowski and his control of the Lodz ghetto and attempt to turn it into a Jewish 'state'....think of words such as 'harrowing', 'cruel', 'evil' and times them by 10.....the characters are almost Dickensian in th...
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review 1: Perhaps I'm biased, having done a school history project on Lodz ghetto and the motivations of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, but I thought this was a fantastically well written novel about the life of, and in, the ghetto, and Rumkowski's own role as a domineering, abusive, and grudg...
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review 1: Mér finnst lífið of stutt til að klára bækur sem ég næ ekki sambandi við. En stundum verða þær bækur furðulega margar – í fyrra var hlutfallið skuggalega hátt. Svo ég ákvað að drösla mér í gegnum Öreigana í Łodz jafnvel þótt hún væri búin að missa á mér takið, ég búinn að missa á...