Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark

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In 1980, Thomas Keneally was in Los Angeles on a book tour to promote

Confederates

, his novel of the American Civil War, and in particular of the battle of Antietam. The clasp on his briefcase had broken, so that he called into a Beverly Hills luggage store to buy a new bag. When the proprietor – Leopold Pfefferberg – discovered (without much prompting) that Keneally was a writer, he delivered a precious and unexpected gift. “It’s a story for you, I swear”. The story, as Keneally related in his Author’s Note to his novel

Schindler’s Ark

(1982), was the improbable one of Oskar Schindler, “the German

bon vivant

, speculator, charmer and sign of contradiction, and of his salvage of a cross-section of a condemned race during those years now known by the generic name…

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Citation: Pierce, Peter. "Schindler's Ark". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 January 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12147, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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