EAST WEST STREET: ON THE ORIGINS OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B87179

English Summary/英文概要： When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.

Part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller, Philippe Sands guides us between past and present as several interconnected stories unfold in parallel. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover, only at the end of the trials, that the man they are prosecuting may be responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi-occupied Poland, in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, were remarkable men, whose efforts led to the inclusion of the terms ’crimes against humanity’ and ’genocide’ in the judgement at Nuremberg. The defendant, Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer and Governor-General of Nazi-occupied Poland, turns out to be an equally compelling character.

The lives of these three men lead Sands to a more personal story, as he traces the events that overwhelmed his mother’s family in Lviv and Vienna during the Second World War. At the heart of this book is an equally personal quest to understand the roots of international law and the concepts that have dominated Sands’ work as a lawyer. Eventually, he finds unexpected answers to his questions about his family, in this powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations, and the haunting gaps left by the secrets of others.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人权律师Philippe Sands应邀到乌克兰西部城市利沃夫演讲，在那里，他发现了一系列非同寻常的历史巧合。由此，他开始了自己跨越半个世界的追寻，既是探索国际法的渊源，也是探索他自己家族的秘密历史。而这一切的开始就是纽伦堡审判的最后一天。

本书既是历史侦探故事，也是家族史，也是法律主题的惊悚小说。Philippe Sands通过几个平行又相互关联的故事带领读者穿梭在过去和现在之间。第一个故事有关两个参与纽伦堡审判的检察官。他们在审判的最后一天发现，被起诉的男人可能在利沃夫谋杀了他们全家。这两个检察官Hersch Lauterpacht和Rafael Lemkin都是声名显赫的人，他们不遗余力地促使被告最终被判处“反人类罪”和“种族屠杀罪”。被告的律师是希特勒的私人律师、纳粹占领时期的波兰总督Hans Frank，他也不是省油的灯。

这三个人的经历引出了Sands更个人的故事，他的母亲全家曾于二战时期生活在利沃夫和维也纳。本书中，他从个人角度探讨了国际法的起源，正是这部法律，让Sands有了作为一个律师的工作基础。但他对于自己家族的发现是超过了预期的。记忆、犯罪和愧疚在一代又一代人身上留下印记。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：这本了不起的书中有一部分讲述了一个律师如何努力去了解国际法的缘由（这部分对于非法律专业的读者而言也非常有吸引力），并追述自己家族的回忆，尤其是为了了解自己的祖父在德奥合并之后为什么会抛妻弃子。（Caroline Sanderson，THE BOOKSELLER）

这是一部关于家族秘密、史无前例的法律的故事…回忆和历史紧密连接在一起...通过信件、照片、深度采访等手段，作者细致地刻画了纳粹的迫害... Sands在这本重要的书中指出，为了维持人性，我们不应该忘记发生过的事情。（Kirkus）

A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision (John le Carré)

This remarkable book is partly a lawyer’s quest to understand the roots of international law (one that is surprisingly fascinating for the non-legal reader) and a riveting family memoir which traces what happened to his mother’s forebears - notably why his grandfather left his wife and daughter behind after the Anschluss. (Caroline Sanderson THE BOOKSELLER)

In a triumph of astonishing research, Sands has brilliantly woven together several family stories which lead to the great denouement at the Nuremberg tribunal. No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth (Antony Beevor)

An engrossing tale of family secrets and groundbreaking legal precedents ... a tense, riveting melding of memoir and history ... From letters, photographs, and deeply revealing interviews, the author portrays Nazi persecutions in shattering detail ... For the future of humanity, forgetting, Sands insists in this vastly important book, is not an option (Kirkus)

Philippe Sands’s EAST WEST STREET is a strange and beautiful object: at once a genealogy of international human rights law, and a delicate family portrait. The common element to this apparently unrelated pair is genocidal persecution - and other assorted horrors of twentieth century history. It is meticulous, moving and compulsive (Adam Thirlwell)

"Astonishing and important." - Louis Begley

‘In a triumph of astonishing research, Sands has brilliantly woven together several family stories which lead to the great denouement at the Nuremberg tribunal. No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth.’ Antony Beevor

EAST WEST STREET is on the longlist of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016 (formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize).

http://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/news/longlist-announced-2016-baillie-gifford-prize-non-fiction

About the Author/作者介绍： 王室法律顾问Philippe Sands是Matrix Chambers成员、伦敦大学学院国际法教授。他经常为《经融时报》、《卫报》、《纽约书评》以及《名利场》撰稿，并经常参与广播和电视台节目。同时，他还是文学组织English PEN以及文学盛会Hay Festival的组委会成员。本书是他的第四本书。

Philippe Sands QC is a barrister in the Matrix Chambers and a professor of international law at University College London. He is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair, makes regular appearances on radio and television, and serves on the boards of English PEN and the Hay Festival. This is his fourth book.

Format:照片

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Weidenfeld; US: Knopf; China: Ginkgo; Denmark: Valdemar; France: Albin Michel; Germany: S. Fischer; Holland: Unieboek/Spectrum Israel: Kinneret; Italy: Guanda; Poland: Institute for the History of Science; Spain: Anagrama; Sweden: Bonniers; Turkey: Alfa Yayinlari; Ukraine: Old Lion Publishing.

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