Schindler's List (published in England and Australia as Schindler's Ark), was originally published in October of 1982. Only days after its release, the book received the prestigious Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction, giving it strong sales and a great deal of media attention.
Many of the reviews, however, focused on whether Schindler's List should have won an award for fiction, given its historical documentary nature. In his Author's Note, Keneally himself argues that "fiction would debase the record," but states that he used the "devices of a novel to tell a true story."
Paul Zweig, in "A Good Man in a Bad Time," writes that Schindler's List does indeed read "like a novel: Its voices are thick with living tissue; its scenes are so vivid they appear to result from a kind of ventriloquism." In "Keneally.....
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