My first memory of Schindler's List is watching it at a theatre in the Netherlands. I have always been fascinated with history and found this book to be less about Keneally and his process, then it was about Leopoldo Pfefferberg, the Schindlerjeuden who made it his life's mission to educate the ...
I have seen this movie countless times and loved it every time. This was the first time I sat down to read the book and I’m very glad I did. As expected, it included much more detail than could be pressed into the movie, even with as long as it is. While there were variances, characters that were...
Bettany's Book is classic Keneally - long, broad and impossible to categorize (there are books within the book). This novel shows the author of Schindler's Ark again addressing issues of compassion and suffering with great understanding and a compelling sense of period and place. Both rural Austr...
Great writing as thoughts were presented in various layers. McLeod is the main character, weak but socially aware, empathic and romantic. The Aboriginal dance group is a great mix of personalities from the born again Christian to the curse maker to the pragmatist. The Japanese-American beauty is ...
Keneally is a master of his craft. The book is compelling, the young protagonist priest very convincingly portrayed. He becomes involved in three particular lives, one is a young woman, wife of a soldier (it is set in WWII Australia) who is either a prisoner of the Germans or dead; the second is ...
I found this book to be something of a disappointment. No because of anything this book is, but because of what I thought it was going to be. This might (probably is) be a bit unfair, but it did colour my final impressions of the book so it's worth discussing what exactly this book is.This book i...
Keneally writes a novel which is all about the fate of intellectuals and artists in Iraq in the UN sanctions period. He then saddles himself with two very awkward conventions which do the book no favours at all. First, I guess if you're writing about a contemporary government, you cloak the count...
When the film SCHINDLER'S LIST came out in 1993, Elinor Brecher did a remarkable thing. It occurred to her that, given her location in Florida, she might be living very near a few of the Schindlerjuden (those who were saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust) and she undertook to interview a...
Before picking up A River Town, I hadn’t read anything by Keneally, who also wrote Schildler’s List, but, wow, he can write. It was nearly impossible for me to read this book quickly: the characters and locations are so well drawn that anything less than a deliberate reading seems insulting.Kemps...
Having seen Thomas 'Fenian' Keneally interviewed on TV many years ago,after the publication of a novel about Irish politics, & hearing his chippy Australian tones denigrating Great Britain & all who sail under her colours(me included!), I have avoided reading his controversial work - until now. T...
