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harvio's review against another edition
5.0
- Keneally has been short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, and won it for Schindler's Ark in 1982 (movie title was 'Schindler's List'). I really enjoyed this engaging WWII-period novel about the challenges facing a new priest in Sydney, Australia. Although the plot was slow to build, the characters were very well developed and the gradual-but-inevitable loss of the young priest's innocence was palpably real.
harvio's review against another edition
5.0
- Keneally has been short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, and won it for Schindler's Ark in 1982 (movie title was 'Schindler's List'). I really enjoyed this engaging WWII-period novel about the challenges facing a new priest in Sydney, Australia. Although the plot was slow to build, the characters were very well developed and the gradual-but-inevitable loss of the young priest's innocence was palpably real.
samanthawattam's review
4.0
Book Club Choice: This was my choice for the book club- I thought I'd go for Thomas Keneally as I have read quite a few and had enjoyed them all. He always chooses a particular non-fiction topic/era/person and develops a story around it. I really liked the central character of Father Darragh who really is a basically nice but naïve man and his development as a priest and human being. Kept the attention, always plenty happening and likeable characters. I think a good choice it will be interesting to hear the members' views.
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