East West Street

566 Pages·2016·12.378 MB·English

by  Phillippe Sands

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2016 by Philippe Sands
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin
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ISBN 978-0-385-35071-6 (hardcover)
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Cover photograph by Darren Alff
Cover design by Janet Hansen
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eBook ISBN 9780385350723
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For Malke and Rosa,
for Rita and Leon,
for Annie,
for Ruth
The little town lies in the middle of a great plain…It begins
with little huts and ends with them. After a while the huts are
replaced by houses. Streets begin. One runs from north to
south, the other from east to west.
—JOSEPH ROTH, The Wandering Jews, 1927
What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the
secrets of others.
—NICOLAS ABRAHAM, “Notes on the Phantom,” 1975
Contents
Cover
Also by Philippe Sands
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Note to the Reader
Principal Characters
Map
Prologue: An Invitation
PART I Leon
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
PART II Lauterpacht
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
PART III Miss Tilney of Norwich
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
PART IV Lemkin
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
PART V The Man in a Bow Tie