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In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and masterful account of the growth of the human soul (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction and beautifully redesigned cover. An extraordinary (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden--Schindlers Jews--to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. Astounding...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent (Newsweek).About author(s):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 workhas been nominated four times for the Booker Prize, which he won in 1982 for Schindlers 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, Keneally has traveled through Australia, Iceland, Antarctica, America, Eastern Europe, roaming across genres and topics, often championing the underdog. Im a writer whos always been hard to pin down, Keneally says, because Ive sometimes written about things that are none of my concern -- like the American South or Antarctica orAustralian aboriginals or the Holocaust. I think I appeal to hells angels kind of writers. Keneally has modeled many of his characters after the traditional Australian hero -- the battler. In America everyone admires successful men and women. In Australia, they suspect them. The Australian hero is the person to whom everything has happened -- drought, fire, flood. Oskar Schindler is a classic Keneally character -- conflicted and flawed, the antithesis of a one-dimensional altruistic saint. And Schindlers story is a classic Keneally story -- an ordinary man placed in a situation of enormous moral dilemma. While researching Schindlers List, the author spent two years traveling to eight countries, where he interviewed many of Schindlers Jews and read the numerous testimonies which are held at the Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, Yad Vasbem, Israel. Keneally lives in California where he teaches in the graduate writing program at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, where he holds a Distinguished Professorship. Reading Group Discussion Points Other Books With Reading Group Guides
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Washington Square Press
