Searching for Schindler - Thomas Keneally (2007)Thomas Keneally is the Australian writer of Schindlers List (also known as Schindlers Ark). This memoir tells of his first meeting with Leopold Pfefferberg Page (Poldek), in Beverley Hills who he met when he entered his store, looking to buy a briefcase. There they got talking and Poldek told him of his experiernce during the war, and of Oskar Schindler.
With the assistance of Poldek, Keneally travels across the US, Australia, Poland and Germany meeting and interviewing other survivors. He then turns the story into a work he describes as fation (a novel, but based on true people and events. This book then goes on to earn a Booker Prize, and Steven Spielberg buys the rights to make the movie.
More of an introduction to many of the real life characters, than a behind the scenes peek, this story about the making of a story is entertainment in itself. A prolific writer (over 25 novels) Thomas Keneally gives life to characters that only graced the screen briefly in the movie, and in the book.
It made me go out to buy the movie (luckily I found the dvd in a discount bin for $15). I had seen it when it was released at the cinema but wanted to watch it again after reading the book.
4/5
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