Schindler's List
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0671516884
ISBN 13
9780671516888
Category
823 English Fiction
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
400
Subject
Schindler, Oskar, -- 1908-1974 -- Fiction. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Kraków -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Kraków -- Fiction.
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Winner of the Booker Prize
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.
Winner of the Booker Prize
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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Simon Wiesenthal A truly heroic story of the war and, like the tree planted in Oskar Schindler's honor in Jerusalem, a fitting memorial to the fight of one individual against the horror of Nazism.
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New York Review of Books An extraordinary tale...no summary can adequately convey the strategems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune...A notable achievement.
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Houston ChronicleOne of the best works on the Holocaust, an absorbing, suspenseful book that transcends by far even the best docudramas on the subject.
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Newsweek An astounding story...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent.
Review
Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA masterful account of the growth of the human soul.
About the Author
Thomas Keneally was born in 1936 and raised in the rugged expanse of Australia. As a young man, he planned to join the priesthood, but by 1960, on the verge of the Vietnam War, Keneally found the church in such moral turmoil that he decided it was impossible to go through with his ordination.
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
Simon Wiesenthal A truly heroic story of the war and, like the tree planted in Oskar Schindler's honor in Jerusalem, a fitting memorial to the fight of one individual against the horror of Nazism.
Review
New York Review of Books An extraordinary tale...no summary can adequately convey the strategems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune...A notable achievement.
Review
Houston ChronicleOne of the best works on the Holocaust, an absorbing, suspenseful book that transcends by far even the best docudramas on the subject.
Review
Newsweek An astounding story...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent.
Review
Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA masterful account of the growth of the human soul.
About the Author
Thomas Keneally was born in 1936 and raised in the rugged expanse of Australia. As a young man, he planned to join the priesthood, but by 1960, on the verge of the Vietnam War, Keneally found the church in such moral turmoil that he decided it was impossible to go through with his ordination.
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
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Fiction
Named Person: Oskar Schindler; Oskar Schindler
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 0671516884 9780671516888
OCLC Number: 1103514702
Description: 398 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Thomas Keneally.
Named Person: Oskar Schindler; Oskar Schindler
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 0671516884 9780671516888
OCLC Number: 1103514702
Description: 398 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Thomas Keneally.
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