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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780671516888 
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.
Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.
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About the Author
Keneally received his formal education in Sydney, Australia. Over the past 30 years, he has published over 25 novels, more than a dozen screenplays, and several works of non-fiction. These works include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Playmaker, Season in Purgatory, A Family Madness, and Woman of the Inner Sea. His work has been nominated four times for the Booker Prize, which he won in 1982 for Schindler's List. He won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, The Miles Franklin Award, The Critics Circle Award, and a Logie (Australian Emmy).
A self-described "literary biker," K
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kaaren a., November 26, 2006 (view all comments by kaaren a.)
The style of Keneally's writing is different from the popular "fast read" style that is so pervasive today, so it took me a chapter or two to "get to know" his voice. Once I understood his style I revelled in his storytelling, despite the desperate subject matter. Keneally includes true anecdotes to build the history that is the Holocaust, and although thoroughly shocking and previously unknown facts are included, this is a history that can be read with the enjoyment of getting to know the characters as Keneally sees them.
Before I read this book, I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust. Reading this book made me aware how much I didn't know, and made me come away thinking how important it is for everyone to read and learn - in depth - about the Holocaust, and reflect on its meaning to us today.
I would recommend this book to everyone: even if you have seen the movie, there is much more in the book than could be included in the movie.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780671516888
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Author:
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Historical
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Study and teaching
- Subject:
- World war, 1939-1945
- Subject:
- Literature
- Subject:
- Study & Teaching
- Subject:
- Jews
- Subject:
- Historical - General
- Subject:
- War stories
- Subject:
- Righteous gentiles in the holocaust
- Subject:
- Biographical fiction
- Subject:
- Holocaust, jewish
- Subject:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Krakâow -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- World War, 19
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Copyright:
- 1994
- Series Volume:
- 94-13
- Publication Date:
- September 1994
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 872x570x132 106
