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

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

'Powerful'
THE TIMES

'Marvellous'
SUNDAY TIMES

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 e

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