Searching for Schindler: A Memoir

by Thomas Keneally

Book Overview

This is the captivating story behind "Schindler s List," the Booker Prize winning book and the Academy Award winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385526172
• ISBN13: 9780385526173
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Schlinder Memoir from the author

Enjoyable book about the meeting between the author and the former Jewish prisoner who settled in the US and was determined to have his experiences about being saved by Schlinder published.

The audacity of hope

Generating interest in Schindler was no walk in the park. This book follows Mr. Keneally's path to writing "Schindler's list" and how it finally made it's way to the big screen. Little glimpses into the ways of the publishing world and movie rights also help to enhance our understanding of this process. The Polish "heel clicking soldier" Leopold Page is both the introducer, catalyst, and heart behind this huge undertaking and after reading this book I was newly amazed at what the determination, and persistence of just one man can accomplish. I've also read "Schindler's List" (also by Mr. Keneally) " The Road to Rescue..." by Mietek Pemper in that order prior to reading this book, something I would highly recommend. While "Schindler's List" broadly tells the story, "The Road to Rescue..." gives us a more detailed picture from the eyes of Mietek Pemper, the young secretary with the photographic memory. At last, this book brings us to the present day where we see how close we all were to missing this fascinating story altogether!

Confirmation

Thomas Keneally is among the finest, most versatile and prolific writers in the world. His fiction and non-fiction range from the American South, to Ireland, to Eritrea, to World War I Europe, to Antarctica, and to contemporary and 'convict' Australia, his native country. And, of course to the Holocaust and his Booker Prize winning "Schindler's List" ("Schindler's Ark" everywhere but in the United States). "Searching for Schindler" is a moving account of how Keneally first heard of Oskar Schindler, how he crossed the globe to do the research necessary to write the novel, and how he participated in the making of the Academy Award winning film. "Searching for Schindler" is also intensely personal and the reader comes to know many of the survivors Keneally interviewed and the author himself, a writer with a staggering capacity for work and an unquenchable thirst for understanding humanity. I recommend this book and everything Keneally has written. I have, for many years believed Thomas Keneally deserves consideration for the Nobel Prize; this book is confirmation of that belief.