Schindler’s Ark — Thomas Keneally

Title: Schindler’s Ark
Author: Thomas Keneally
Publisher: Coronet Books / Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 0-340-33501-7
Binding: Softcover

Edition: Coronet edition 1983 (reprinted 1983 and 1984)

Condition: Fair vintage condition. Heavy creasing and wear to covers and spine, edge wear, and visible reading creases throughout. Old school pricing label to rear cover. Internally complete and readable with secure binding.

Thomas Keneally’s Booker Prize-winning historical novel based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved more than a thousand Jewish people during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II.

Drawing from survivor testimonies and historical records, the book blends documentary realism with literary storytelling to reconstruct Schindler’s transformation from opportunistic businessman to unlikely humanitarian. Keneally presents both the horror of the concentration camp system and the moral ambiguity surrounding Schindler himself, avoiding simplistic heroism.

The novel later became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed film Schindler’s List, though the book remains notable for its journalistic detail and grounded historical approach.