Woman of the Inner Sea (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Keneally
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Sydney, Australia, and the Australian outback
- Principal Characters: Kate Gaffney Kozinski, The Reverend Francis (Frank) O’Brien, Paul Kozinski, Barry (Jelly) McNeal, Gus Schulberger, Burnside
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Blackmail, Women, Corruption, Catholics or Catholic Church, Heroes or heroism, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Beaches or seashores, Animals, Australia or Australians, Explosions or explosives
- Locales: Sydney, Australia
In his award-winning novel, Schindler’s List (1982; published in Australia and Great Britain as Schindler’s Ark), Thomas Keneally utilizes fiction to explore an inspiring true story—Oskar Schindler’s successful effort to save thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Significantly, the novel opens with an arresting image: the magnificently attired German industrialist in his plush limousine on his way to a dinner with SS officers. The novel consists of a fictional fleshing out of this opening scene and the legendary character of Oskar Schindler. In a very broad sense,...
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