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Schindler's Ark

The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as ‘Schindler's List'

Thomas Keneally author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:28th Dec '06

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Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller

***Winner of the Booker Prize***

'ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS' Spectator

'Extraordinary' Graham Greene

'Powerful' The Times
'Marvellous' Sunday Times

The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler's List

In the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged. Oskar Schindler was a heavy-drinking, womanising industrialist who defied and outwitted the SS to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II.

Based on a true story, Schindler's Ark is an astonishing tale of huge risks and great courage in the face of unspeakable evil.

PRAISE FOR THOMAS KENEALLY

'A superb storyteller' Alan Sillitoe

'One of the historical novel's most expert practitioners' Guardian

'A grand talent' The Times

An extraordinary achievement -- Graham Greene, author of BRIGHTON ROCK
Brilliantly detailed, moving, powerful and gripping * The Times *
Thomas Keneally has done marvellous justice to a marvellous story * Sunday Times *
This remarkable book has the immediacy and the almost unbearable detail of a thousand eye witnesses who forgot nothing * New York Times Book Review *
Keneally is a superb storyteller. With Schindler's Ark he has given us his best book yet, a magnificent novel which held me from the first page to the last -- Alan Sillitoe, author of SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
An extraordinary tale . . .no summary can adequately convey the stratagems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune . . . A notable achievement * New York Review of Books *
A magnificent book, powerful, harrowing and beautifully written * Sunday Express *
A fine and moving story * Evening Standard *
Fascinating, expertly told and impossible to put down * Bookseller *
Magnificent . . . Beautifully written * Mail on Sunday *
A masterful account of the growth of the human soul * Los Angeles Times *
An astounding story . . . in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent * Newsweek *

ISBN: 9780340936290

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 30mm

Weight: 300g

432 pages