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Book SynopsisThe Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential.
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy-drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.
Thomas Keneally's novel first brought the story of Oskar Schindler to international attention in 1982, when it won the Booker Prize. It was made by Steven Spielberg into the Oscar-winning film Schindler's List in 1993, the year Schindler and his wife were named Righteous Among the Nations.
Trade ReviewAn 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 *
