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Zusatztext Thomas Keneally's impersonation of translated prose! artfully achieved! is studded with strange poeticisms...a sturdy achievement! expertly constructed and paced...One of its major pleasures is to be found in the way in which the author has braided together the factual and the invented. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published more than thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark , which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List , and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith , Confederates and Gossip From The Forest , each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy , Searching for Schindler and Australians . He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney. Klappentext FICTION / Action & Adventure Zusammenfassung From the author of SCHINDLER'S ARK, the dramatic story of a Russian revolutionary's exile in Australia and his return to fight alongside Lenin in 1917.
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Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced SCHINDLER'S ARK Giles Foden, Guardian
