Томас Кенилли - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures, tensions reach a head when the Newbys, Jimmie's white employers, try to break up his marriage. The Newby women are murdered and Jimmie flees, pursued by police and vigilantes. The hunt intensifies as further murders are committed, and concludes with tragic results. Thomas Keneally's fictionalised account of the 1900 killing spree of half-Aboriginal Jimmy Governor is a powerful story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society.

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Thomas Keneally's fictionalised account of the 1900 killing spree of half-Aboriginal Jimmy Governor is a powerful story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society.

Впервые на русском языке — книга от создателя знаменитого "Списка Шиндлера", в которой блестяще соединились семейная история и исторический роман, рассказ о людях, о войне и людях на войне. Салли и Наоми — сестры, но они никогда не были особенно близки. События, связанные со смертью их матери, увеличили пропасть между ними, но в то же время связали их узами, которые сильнее любви и привязанности — чувством общей вины и необходимостью хранить общую страшную тайну. Сестры добровольно отправляются на фронт — в разгаре Первая мировая. Ужасы войны становятся испытанием, через которое им предстоит пройти вместе. Сблизит ли это их или…

By the acclaimed author of the Academy Award-winning movie Schindler's List, this Civil War saga is both a riveting account of America at war and a tapestry of human drama.

In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides are torn by battle exhaustion and a confusion that far exceed their national differences. In this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudices, arguments and desperate measures that resulted in the armistice which would shape the future of Europe.

Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.

When Sydney film producer Dimp Bettany discovers the memoirs of her ancestors, pioneer settler John Bettany and convict Sarah Bernard, she is convinced she has found the vehicle for her next film masterpiece. Filtered through Dimp's correspondence with her sister, Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, we are drawn into the lives of John Bettany, a man far ahead of his time, as he shares his vivid impressions of a new colony, and his future wife Sarah and her close relationship with an English murderess.

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Thomas Keneally's famous novel tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who risked his life every day during the Second World War to save as many Jews as possible. Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's List won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

«Тот, кто спас единственную жизнь, спас весь мир» — эти слова из Талмуда написали заключенные на кольце, которое подарили своему спасителю — Оскару Шиндлеру. Человеку, который избавил от мученической смерти больше тысячи людей. «Немецкий бонвиван, ловкий делец, обаятельная личность, полная противоречий» — так пишет о своем герое Кенилли. Да, Оскар Шиндлер не был святым, но стал — Праведником Мира. О нем помнят не только те, кто обязан ему жизнью, не только их дети и внуки — нет в мире человека, который не слышал бы это имя и не преклонялся перед скромным мужеством Шиндлера. В 1993 году Стивен Спилберг снял по роману Томаса Кенилли…