King of the Jews
by Leslie Epstein
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This masterpiece is a brilliant work of black humor that has taken its place as a classic novel about the Holocaust. Set in Poland, it is the story of I. C. Trumpleman, the indiscreet director of an orphanage. When the Germans invade and the Jewish community is forced into a ghetto, Trumpleman becomes the leading figure caught in making choices about who will live and who will starve.Tags
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Holocaust tale of blaming outrageous crimes on an uncredentialed Jewish doctor in Poland who was deemed the Messiah by the Nazis
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14+ Works 487 Members
Leslie Epstein has written eight books of fiction and won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Achievement in Literature for his creation of Leib Goldkorn. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Łódź, Łódź, Polen
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .E6426 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
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