The year that was

Authors

Anna Rutherford, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Abstract

AUSTRALIA

After having been three times the bridesmaid at the Booker McConnell Awards, Thomas Keneally is at last the bride with his novel Schindler's Ark (Hodder & Stoughton). It tells the story of a smooth and wealthy industrialist who managed to use his friendship with high-ranking Nazis and his black market alcohol to help Jewish prisoners escape. With its interest in the relationship between history, reportage and fiction, its grotesque images, and its dialectic between a man too earthly to be a saint and a community which wants to make him one, it's clear that the finished novel develops some of the central obsessions in Keneally's work.

Recommended Citation

Rutherford, Anna, The year that was, Kunapipi, 5(1), 1983.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol5/iss1/13