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~ Winner of the Booker Prize - 1982, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction - 1983
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womanizer, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a savior. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission as a compassionate angel of mercy . . .
A milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden (Schindler’s Jews) to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
"Schindler's List has the immediacy and the almost unbearable detail of a thousand eye witnesses who forgot nothing." -- The New York Times Book Review