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A writer whose work has been published widely around the world—and now finally in the U.S.—Swedish novelist Steve Sem-Sandberg, whose home bases are Stockholm and Vienna—visits with his acclaimed, Holocaust-set novel, The Emperor of Lies (published as De fattiga I Łódź, translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). "This is fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved. It helps us to do what is so hard, simply think about the Holocaust. Normally, the mind sheers away in horror after exposure to the accumulation of grueling detail and to the ungraspable weight of the statistics. It is difficult to focus our imagination, our empathy, and Sem-Sandberg provides a way for us to do that, guiding the reader through the mass of information to the human heart to these appalling events ... It is a stunning achievement and one to be applauded. I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me." – Hilary Mantel.
