Lampshade : A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

English

ISBN: 1416566279

EAN: 9781416566274

Category: History / Military / World War I/History / Holocaust/History / Military / World War Ii/Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies/House & Home / Decorating/

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: 09/30/2010

Synopsis: The journey that takes Mark Jacobson to Weimar, Buchenwald, Yad Vashem, the Museum of natural history, and DNA labs began in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1991, when he met Skip Henderson. About six months after Hurricane Katrina drowned the city, Henderson was at a rummage sale lookihg for a drum for Mardi Gras, when Dave, the guy selling the stuff on the sidewalk, said , Check out the lamp, and told Skip with certainty that it was made from the skins of Jews. Skip didnt believe anything Dave said, but he bought the lampshade for 5. But his wife wouldnt let him bring it in the house with Daves story attached to it, true or not. It sat in the attic until he shipped it to a drum maker to look at-whod never seen anything like it-and then Skip sent it to Mark - Youre a journalist, you figure out what it is. The Lampshade is Marks singular investigation not only into the truth of the thing itself, but of the idea of it, our understanding and reliance on history, on myths and reality, facts and evidence, on artifacts from the past, on evil.

Lampshade : A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.1 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 18.77 oz

Pages: 368