To Asmara (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Keneally
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: The Sudan and Eritrea
- Principal Characters: Timothy Darcy, Christine Malmedy, Masihi (roland Malmedy), Mark Henry, Lady Julia Ashmore-smith, Amna Nurhussein, Major Paulos Fida
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Prisoners, Feminism, War, Photography or photographers, Conquest, Civil wars
- Locales: Sudan, Eritrea
In his previous novels, Thomas Keneally has demonstrated his insight into the relationships between individuals and their societies, especially the conflicts between natural impulses and abstract justice, which is too often defined by an oppressive authority. In Keneally’s most famous novel, Schindler’s Ark (1982), the oppressor is the Nazi government. The protagonist of the book is Oskar Schindler, who saved fifteen hundred Jews in Poland and in Czechoslovakia. Here there is no ambivalence about right and wrong, though Keneally shows that even the saintly Schindler is far...
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