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Title	:	The Street Sweeper
Author	:	Elliot Perlman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 626 pages
Published	:	January 5th 2012 by Riverhead Books (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust

The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman

Hardcover | Pages: 626 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 3898 Users | 623 Reviews

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How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive to become history.

Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can’t locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A few blocks uptown, historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging from the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally, and perhaps even personally.

As these men try to survive in early-twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths—Lamont’s and Adam’s—lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.

Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.

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Original Title:	The Street Sweeper
ISBN:	1594488479 (ISBN13: 9781594488474)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee for Longlist (2012), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year Fiction (2012), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2012)

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The best novel Ive read so far this year. Its about the redemptive powers of storytelling and is intelligent, compelling and deeply moving. It features a cast of brilliantly drawn characters and does a fantastic job of demonising racism. The street sweeper is Lamont Williams, an American black man in his 30s and an ex-convict who has lost touch with his young daughter. He is living with his grandmother in the Bronx, and after doing a good deed is offered a job as a janitor at a New York cancer

Occasionally you come across a book that rips your insides into ribbons or makes you feel like you are underwater and in danger of having your lungs burst. When you do, you find you have to stop, lay the book aside, and come up for air. I felt that way a number of times while reading The Street Sweeper. The horror of what men will do to one another, have done and still do, is somehow overwhelming, no matter how many times you have encountered it before.Perlman achieves a perfect balance between



I hate abandoning books, but I've read 12%, and I'm getting more and more irritated with the writing. Why, oh why, oh why does Perlman keep repeating himself? I enjoy books that challenge my mind, make me think a little. I'm not afraid of lengthy novels or unique writing styles, but it's such a chore to read this. Reading shouldn't feel like work. I've connected with the main character, Lamont Williams, but I'm drowning. I wanted to like this book too. Disappointed.

The Street Sweeper by Australian historian Elliot Perlman is a fictional book which deals with the American struggle for civil rights and the Holocaust. The book beautifully ties together the idea that we are all human and touch each others lives.Lamont Williams, an ex-con African American, is trying to return to normal life after being at the wrong time in the wrong place. Lamont gets a job at a hospital where he works as a janitor and befriends a cancer patient who is also a World War II sur

What a beautiful story that is full of emotion. Fortunately, I was very patient with this book and was not in a hurry to finish. There are lots of characters and lots of historical happenings that take some time to get through. When everything comes around full circle I found it impossible not to give this a 5 star rating. It's very detailed in explaining the death camps of the war. I guess that's a trigger warning. It's very disturbing. I loved this book!!!! Grab a box of tissues and brace

I just finished The Street Sweeper by Elliott Perlman and all I can say is WOW!! This book begins in New York City where we meet a black man who has just been released from jail. The book then introduces us to a Professor of History at Columbia, who was raised in Australia, and learns he won't be receiving tenure. Along the way we meet an elderly man who has survived the Holocaust and tells his story to an orderly at Sloan Kettering Hospital, And then another man from the 40's who interviewed