Thomas Keneally Livres

"Les survivants se rappellent cette liste avec une telle émotion que la réalité se brouille. La liste, c'était le bien absolu. C'était la vie. Au-delà de ces quelques feuillets bourrés de noms, il n'y avait plus qu'un trou noir. " Traité comme un roman, "La liste de Schindler" est un hommage à l'Allemand Oskar Schindler. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce dernier utilisa sa position dominante et ses relations parmi les SS pour sauver mille deux cents Juifs d'une mort certaine. La liste recensait les ouvriers qu'il comptait faire transférer de Pologne en Tchécoslovaquie, et pour lesquels il n'hésita pas à dépenser plus de cent mille reichmarks en pots-de-vin. Aujourd'hui, un arbre à Jérusalem porte son nom.

From the award-winning author of "To Asmara" comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists hijack his plane, a dance troupe manager is transformed into a hero.

"SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER is very much Tom's journey, he reflects on his early days as a writer with quite a bit of success - but no confidence - and how this book, the people he met, and the film it became, changed his life. From his Sydney home, he tracked down the main player's in Poldek and Schindler's story. Tom and Poldek travelled across the US, Germany, Israel, Austria and Poland interviewing survivors and discovering extraordinary stories. SCHINDLER'S ARK took a huge toll on Tom, and his family, he had never been so overwhelmed by the writing of a story. It forced him to think about Australians and their attitudes to the Holocaust, to think about the Israel / Palestine situation and about families. Not ready to give up the story of Schindler and his Jews after the enormous success of the book, Tom is there for the film adaptation and on set for the filming. Filled with stories of Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and many other well-known and strong characters SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER gives Tom Keneally scope to show the wonderful, warm, thinking, compassionate and very funny man that he is."--Publisher's website

Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally, Booker prizewinning novelist for Schindler's Ark, shows in this short, but enthralling life that Lincoln's origins, his early life, his self-taught lawyer's career and how he became a politician and ultimately US president, is an epitome of the American dream. If Lincoln - without any benefits of class, wealth or contacts - could reach the pinnacle of US life then so might anyone else. Keneally has long been absorbed by Lincoln's life and letters, upon which he draws for his biography.

Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him.

From the author of SCHINDLER'S ARK, the dramatic story of a Russian revolutionary's exile in Australia and his return to fight alongside Lenin in 1917

Annotation In the third volume of Thomas Keneally's unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and unknown - he takes up the story at the end of the Great War and explores our development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century.

A history of Australia focuses on the people who formed the country, including convicts, Aborigines, gold seekers, settlers, soldiers, and reformers.

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.

Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.