WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré
'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' - SUNDAY TIMES
When 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.
(Londres, 1960) es profesor de Derecho Internacional en el University College de Londres y abogado. Ha intervenido en importantes juicios internacionales celebrados en el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea y en la Corte Penal Internacional de La Haya, incluyendo los casos de Pinochet, la guerra de Yugoslavia, el genocidio de Ruanda, la invasión de Irak y Guantánamo. Es autor de los ensayos Lawless Word, sobre la ilegalidad de la guerra de Irak, y Torture Team, sobre el uso de la tortura por parte de la administración Bush. Es colaborador habitual de publicaciones como Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books y Vanity Fair, y comentarista de la CNN, la MSNBC y el BBC World Service.
