Steve Sem-Sandberg

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lódz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director -- and t...

• Aug-2016
• / Literary
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The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Aus...

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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I should not have gone back to the island but did it all the same. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off the Norwegian coast. He is there to sort through the belongings of his late foster father in their...

• Jul-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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In this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Georg Büchner’s groundbreaking play Woyzeck through a new lens.  W., the astonishing novel by August Prizeâ€"winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg, is a...