Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally audiobook

Schindler's List

By Thomas Keneally
Read by Sir Ben Kingsley

Simon & Schuster Audio
4.65 Hours Abridged
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    ISBN: 9780743548045

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author. An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) 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. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, 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. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).

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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 1983 Man Booker Prize

Winner of the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

A New York Times Best Book

A #1 USA Today bestseller

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.

An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) 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. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, 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. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A truly heroic story of the war and, like the tree planted in Oskar Schindler’s honor in Jerusalem, a fitting memorial to the fight of one individual against the horror of Nazism.” Simon Wiesenthal
“An astounding story…In this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent.” Newsweek
“An extraordinary tale…No summary can adequately convey the strategems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune…A notable achievement.” New York Review of Books
“A remarkable work of fiction…Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity. ” Publishers Weekly
“Ben Kingsley…reads in a calculatedly matter-of-fact tone, letting the story’s power alone convey its complicated emotions. Highly recommended.” Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Thomas Keneally

Author Bio: Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published nonfiction and more than thirty novels, including the Booker Prize winning Schindler’s Ark, which was the basis for the major motion picture Schindler’s List.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 4.65
Audience: Adult
Language: English