by Thomas Keneally · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340335017
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«Schindler's Ark» is the historical novel by Thomas Keneally, published by Sceptre in paperback (432 pages, in English).
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, a man of dissolute life and lover of pleasures, becomes an unexpected protector of the Jews of Kraków. His story is one of transformation: initial opportunism gives way to a humanitarian enterprise to save hundreds of people.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1982 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in 1983; in the US it was also published as «Schindler's List».
For readers of historical fiction and accounts of World War II and the Holocaust.
Thomas Michael Keneally is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
