Schindler's List
Ratings18
Average rating4.1
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Ratings18
Average rating4.1
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.
Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.
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Great story of daring and compassion. However the writing style is sometimes needlessly complex with a ton of sub-sentences which make it hard to follow what is going on.
It's heartbreaking, and watching the film after having read the book was a great experience of accenting the more emotional scenes.
