{"product_id":"the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-paperback","title":"The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOlivier Guez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorgia de Chamberet\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this rigorusly researched factual novel--drawn almost entirely from historical documents--Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through these years of flight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis chilling novel situates the reader in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlivier Guez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eL'Impossible retour: A History of Jews in Germany since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePraise of Dodging\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Revolutions of Jacques Koskas\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2016, he received the German Best Screenplay Award for the film Fritz Bauer, A German Hero. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorgia de Chamberet\u003c\/b\u003e is a committee member of English PEN's Writers in Translation programme. As an editor at Quartet Books in the 1990s she published contemporary writers Tahar Ben Jelloun, Annie Ernaux, Juan Carlos Onetti, Daniel Pennac and Simon Leys (winner of the 1992 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction) amongst others, as well as showcasing various Cuban writers in an anthology edited by Peter Bush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766467035424,"sku":"9781788735889","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7009ca4a3cc36e1e082267a3df776519.webp?v=1780293179","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}