Season In Purgatory (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Set against the brutal backdrop of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II, Season in Purgatory chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of a young British surgeon thrust into the heart of a desperate guerrilla war. Thomas Keneally immerses the reader in the moral complexities of wartime medicine and loyalty, as the protagonist navigates impossible choices between duty, survival, and the deeply human connections forged under fire. The novel presents a vivid portrait of the Partisan struggle — raw, unglamorous, and morally ambiguous — filtered through the eyes of an outsider who gradually becomes bound to the cause he once viewed with detachment. Keneally, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, writes with the unflinching precision and compassionate authority that would later define Schindler's Ark, his Booker Prize-winning masterwork. His prose is lean yet deeply evocative, capable of rendering both the chaos of combat and the quiet anguish of conscience with equal force. Season in Purgatory stands as a testament to Keneally's extraordinary ability to illuminate the costs of war not through grand heroics, but through the intimate, irreversible moments that define a man's character — leaving the reader to question what any of us might sacrifice when purgatory is the only common ground.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Collins
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Set against the brutal backdrop of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II, Season in Purgatory chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of a young British surgeon thrust into the heart of a desperate guerrilla war. Thomas Keneally immerses the reader in the moral complexities of wartime medicine and loyalty, as the protagonist navigates impossible choices between duty, survival, and the deeply human connections forged under fire. The novel presents a vivid portrait of the Partisan struggle — raw, unglamorous, and morally ambiguous — filtered through the eyes of an outsider who gradually becomes bound to the cause he once viewed with detachment. Keneally, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, writes with the unflinching precision and compassionate authority that would later define Schindler's Ark, his Booker Prize-winning masterwork. His prose is lean yet deeply evocative, capable of rendering both the chaos of combat and the quiet anguish of conscience with equal force. Season in Purgatory stands as a testament to Keneally's extraordinary ability to illuminate the costs of war not through grand heroics, but through the intimate, irreversible moments that define a man's character — leaving the reader to question what any of us might sacrifice when purgatory is the only common ground.