Schindler's Ark
#85 of 8,085 books · #48 in Fiction
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1983) and the Booker Prize (1982).
In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler's Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. A novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN-13
- 9781982151041
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionWonMajor(1983)
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(1982)
Other awarded books from Thomas Keneally
- Confederates (2013)0 wins · 4 score
- Gossip from the Forest (2013)0 wins · 4 score
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)0 wins · 4 score
- The Daughters of Mars (2012)0 wins · 3 score
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