A Family Madness (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What happens when the sins of one generation reach across decades to consume the next? A Family Madness is a haunting, dual-narrative novel that interweaves the story of a Belorussian family's wartime collaboration with the Nazis and the desperate secrets they carried into their Australian exile, with the life of Terry Delaney, a rugby league player whose fate becomes inextricably entangled with theirs in the suburbs of modern Sydney. Thomas Keneally constructs a morally complex thriller that refuses easy judgement, drawing the reader into a world where survival demands an impossible price and where the past is never truly past. Keneally, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists and the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark, brings his formidable gifts for historical empathy and moral ambiguity to bear on questions of guilt, loyalty, and identity. The novel moves between wartime Eastern Europe and contemporary Australia with cinematic precision, illustrating how atrocity echoes through bloodlines and ordinary lives. Signed by the author, this copy carries the rare, intimate authority of Keneally's own hand — a testament to a work that continues to unsettle and compel all who encounter it.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What happens when the sins of one generation reach across decades to consume the next? A Family Madness is a haunting, dual-narrative novel that interweaves the story of a Belorussian family's wartime collaboration with the Nazis and the desperate secrets they carried into their Australian exile, with the life of Terry Delaney, a rugby league player whose fate becomes inextricably entangled with theirs in the suburbs of modern Sydney. Thomas Keneally constructs a morally complex thriller that refuses easy judgement, drawing the reader into a world where survival demands an impossible price and where the past is never truly past. Keneally, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists and the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark, brings his formidable gifts for historical empathy and moral ambiguity to bear on questions of guilt, loyalty, and identity. The novel moves between wartime Eastern Europe and contemporary Australia with cinematic precision, illustrating how atrocity echoes through bloodlines and ordinary lives. Signed by the author, this copy carries the rare, intimate authority of Keneally's own hand — a testament to a work that continues to unsettle and compel all who encounter it.