Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels "Schindler's List" (the basis for the movie and the winner of the Booker Prize), "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," "Confederates," "Gossip from the Forest," "The Playmaker," "Woman of the Inner Sea," "A River Town," "Office of Innocence," and "The Tyrant s Novel." His most recent works of nonfiction are "A Commonwealth of Thieves," "The Great Shame," and "American Scoundrel." He resides in Sydney, Australia."
"Had I read "Searching for Schindler" before making the film, I may
have made it an hour longer. I owe you so much. The world owes you
more."
Steven Spielberg
In this touching and often humorous memoir, [Keneally] recounts
months traveling to Germany, Israel, Austria, the U.S. and Poland
with Poldek to interview 'Schindlerjuden' - the survivors rescued
by Schindler . Keneally engages the reader with tales about himself
as well. He writes about becoming a novelist, his creative
anxieties that fueled the writing process, his experiences with
publishers and the toll writing the book took on him and his
family. Hollywood anecdotes about Spielberg and the film's stars,
including Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, provide a
fascinating insider view of how movies are made. What's hard to
fathom is that before Keneally walked into Poldek's shop nearly
three decades ago, Schindler was hardly known. This is the story of
how that changed forever.
-"USA Today"
The Australian author is a genial, unaffected companion in this
leisurely voyage around "Schindler s List" (1982) . In prose so
clear it glistens, he describes working on early drafts of the
screenplay with Steven Spielberg (who eventually, gently, fired
him) and the production of the film, much of which he observed . An
essential companion to the original novel.
"Kirkus Reviews"
Keneally provides some interesting insights into the process of
turning a series of decades-old remembrances into a great book. The
strength of this work, however, are the stories of the survivors
and their efforts to live with a degree of normalcy.
-"Booklist"
The star of "Searching for Schindler," from beginning to end, is
not Mr. Keneally but Mr. Page [the Holocaust survivor who
introduced Mr. Keneally to Schindler's story]. He begs, he exhorts,
he presses money into the hands of the needy, he opens every door
Mr. Keneally needs opened, often through sheer force of will and
personality. He even turns out to be friendly with Leah Adler, Mr.
Spielberg's mother, from the kosher dairy restaurant she ran in
Beverley Hills. Next to him Mr. Keneally seems like a wallflower.
Both the comedy and the horror contained in this memoir are present
in a throwaway comment Mr. Page makes to Mr. Keneally: 'You
wouldn't have lasted two weeks with the Nazis. They loved killing
guys like you. Poetic guys.'
-"The New York Times""
"Had I read "Searching for Schindler" before making the film, I may
have made it an hour longer. I owe you so much. The world owes you
more."
Steven Spielberg
In this touching and often humorous memoir, [Keneally] recounts
months traveling to Germany, Israel, Austria, the U.S. and Poland
with Poldek to interview 'Schindlerjuden' - the survivors rescued
by Schindler . Keneally engages the reader with tales about himself
as well. He writes about becoming a novelist, his creative
anxieties that fueled the writing process, his experiences with
publishers and the toll writing the book took on him and his
family. Hollywood anecdotes about Spielberg and the film's stars,
including Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, provide a
fascinating insider view of how movies are made. What's hard to
fathom is that before Keneally walked into Poldek's shop nearly
three decades ago, Schindler was hardly known. This is the story of
how that changed forever.
-"USA Today"
The Australian author is a genial, unaffected companion in this
leisurely voyage around "Schindler s List" (1982) . In prose so
clear it glistens, he describes working on early drafts of the
screenplay with Steven Spielberg (who eventually, gently, fired
him) and the production of the film, much of which he observed . An
essential companion to the original novel.
"Kirkus Reviews"
Keneally provides some interesting insights into the process of
turning a series of decades-old remembrances into a great book. The
strength of this work, however, are the stories of the survivors
and their efforts to live with a degree of normalcy.
-"Booklist"
The star of "Searching for Schindler," from beginning to end, is
not Mr. Keneally but Mr. Page [the Holocaust survivor who
introduced Mr. Keneally to Schindler's story]. He begs, he exhorts,
he presses money into the hands of the needy, he opens every door
Mr. Keneally needs opened, often through sheer force of will and
personality. He even turns out to be friendly with Leah Adler, Mr.
Spielberg's mother, from the kosher dairy restaurant she ran in
Beverley Hills. Next to him Mr. Keneally seems like a wallflower.
Both the comedy and the horror contained in this memoir are present
in a throwaway comment Mr. Page makes to Mr. Keneally: 'You
wouldn't have lasted two weeks with the Nazis. They loved killing
guys like you. Poetic guys.'
-"The New York Times""
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