Schindlers Ark
Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler’s Ark (Schindler’s List in USA) 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. From Publishers Weekly A mesmerizing novel based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industralist who saved and succored more than 1000 Jews from the Nazis at enormous financial and emotional expense. From Library Journal How the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than one t...Author: Keneally Thomas
ISBN: 340278382
Year of publication: 1982
Genre: Historical fiction
Number of pages: 469
Reading time: 7 h. 49 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
