Schindler's Ark (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar. Few tiny spots on the top edge. Otherwise remains a clean, tight and bright copy.
In the shadow of the Holocaust, one man's audacious moral awakening becomes the unlikely salvation of over a thousand Jewish lives — this is the astonishing true story at the heart of Schindler's Ark. Thomas Keneally chronicles the remarkable journey of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and opportunist who, amid the industrialised horror of Nazi-occupied Poland, transforms from a war profiteer into a desperate, resourceful protector, sheltering his Jewish workers from the murderous machinery of the Third Reich under the guise of his enamelware factory in Kraków. Keneally constructs this narrative with the visceral immediacy of fiction and the unflinching authority of documentary testimony, drawing on the first-hand accounts of the Schindlerjuden — the men and women Schindler saved — to present a portrait of moral complexity that defies easy categorisation. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1982 and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's landmark film, Schindler's Ark stands as one of the defining works of twentieth-century literature on the Holocaust, arguing compellingly that heroism can emerge from the most flawed and unexpected of souls. This signed edition, dated 1998, carries with it an added layer of intimate literary history — a direct connection to the author himself that makes an already indispensable work truly singular.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar. Few tiny spots on the top edge. Otherwise remains a clean, tight and bright copy.
In the shadow of the Holocaust, one man's audacious moral awakening becomes the unlikely salvation of over a thousand Jewish lives — this is the astonishing true story at the heart of Schindler's Ark. Thomas Keneally chronicles the remarkable journey of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and opportunist who, amid the industrialised horror of Nazi-occupied Poland, transforms from a war profiteer into a desperate, resourceful protector, sheltering his Jewish workers from the murderous machinery of the Third Reich under the guise of his enamelware factory in Kraków. Keneally constructs this narrative with the visceral immediacy of fiction and the unflinching authority of documentary testimony, drawing on the first-hand accounts of the Schindlerjuden — the men and women Schindler saved — to present a portrait of moral complexity that defies easy categorisation. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1982 and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's landmark film, Schindler's Ark stands as one of the defining works of twentieth-century literature on the Holocaust, arguing compellingly that heroism can emerge from the most flawed and unexpected of souls. This signed edition, dated 1998, carries with it an added layer of intimate literary history — a direct connection to the author himself that makes an already indispensable work truly singular.