East West Street

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' John le Carre'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' SUNDAY TIMESWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts of wartime bravery, EAST WEST STREET is an unforgettable blend of memoir and historical detective story, and a powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations.

Philippe Sands is hoogleraar Internationaal Recht aan University College London, en advocaat in de Matrix Chambers. Hij verschijnt vaak in internationale hoven, zoals het Internationaal Strafhof en het Internationaal Gerechtshof in Den Haag. Hij is betrokken geweest bij een groot aantal van de belangrijkste internationale misdaadzaken van de afgelopen jaren, inclusief die van Pinochet, Congo, Joegoslavië, Rwanda, Irak en Guantanamo Bay. Galicische wetten is zijn vierde boek. Sands schrijft voor de Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review of Books en Vanity Fair.