- Man Booker Prize Winner, Nazi party, concentration camps, holocaust
"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Keneally
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 429
- Publisher
- Sceptre, Distribooks Inc, Book Club Associates
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780340278383
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