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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-three novels since, most recently  Crimes of the Father ,  Napoleon’s Last Island ,  Shame and the Captives , and the  New York Times  bestselling  The Daughters of Mars . He is also the author of  Schindler’s List , which won the Booker Prize in 1982,  The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith ,  Gossip from the Forest , and  Confederates , all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of nonfiction, including his boyhood memoir  Homebush Boy ,  The Commonwealth of Thieves , and  Searching for Schindler . He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney, Australia. Klappentext Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Keneally, Keneally Thomas
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780671885113
• ISBN: 978-0-671-88511-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general