Schindler's Ark
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
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Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight.
Winner of the Booker Prize, Schindler's Ark is a masterwork of narrative non-fiction that chronicles the extraordinary true story of Oskar Schindler, a flamboyant German industrialist and unlikely hero of the Holocaust. Thomas Keneally reconstructs, with meticulous research and novelistic urgency, how Schindler transformed his enamelware factory in Kraków into a sanctuary for over a thousand Polish Jews, shielding them from the murderous machinery of the Nazi regime. The tone is at once harrowing and deeply humane, balancing unflinching accounts of SS brutality — embodied most viscerally in the sadistic commandant Amon Göth — with moments of astonishing moral courage and dark irony. Keneally presents Schindler not as a saint but as a contradictory man of appetites and charm who discovered, almost accidentally, a capacity for profound sacrifice. The result is a shattering portrait of conscience forged in the most catastrophic circumstances of the twentieth century, and a testament to the power of individual action against systematic evil.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight.
Winner of the Booker Prize, Schindler's Ark is a masterwork of narrative non-fiction that chronicles the extraordinary true story of Oskar Schindler, a flamboyant German industrialist and unlikely hero of the Holocaust. Thomas Keneally reconstructs, with meticulous research and novelistic urgency, how Schindler transformed his enamelware factory in Kraków into a sanctuary for over a thousand Polish Jews, shielding them from the murderous machinery of the Nazi regime. The tone is at once harrowing and deeply humane, balancing unflinching accounts of SS brutality — embodied most viscerally in the sadistic commandant Amon Göth — with moments of astonishing moral courage and dark irony. Keneally presents Schindler not as a saint but as a contradictory man of appetites and charm who discovered, almost accidentally, a capacity for profound sacrifice. The result is a shattering portrait of conscience forged in the most catastrophic circumstances of the twentieth century, and a testament to the power of individual action against systematic evil.