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Thomas Keneally est un romancier australien et un fervent défenseur de la république d'Australie. Né en 1935, il a d'abord fait des études pour devenir prêtre, puis s'est tourné vers l'enseignement. Cet écrivain majeur est l'auteur de biographies et de nombreux romans – citons
Bring Larks and Heroes et
Three Cheers for the Paraclete, tous deux récompensés par le prix Miles Franklin (1967 et 1968). Son dernier roman en date est
Crimes ot the Father, publié en 2016. Il vit en Australie avec sa femme et ses deux filles.
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The Dickens Boy

Thomas Keneally


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2020-09-03

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By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia....

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Télécharger le livre :  La Quête de Schindler
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" Si j'avais lu La Quête de Schindler avant de faire le film, celui-ci aurait duré au moins une heure de plus. Je dois beaucoup à Thomas Keneally, mais le monde lui doit plus encore." Steven Spielberg Si tout le monde connaît Oskar Schindler, grâce au livre de Thomas...

Editeur : Sonatine
Parution : 2015-08-25

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Télécharger le livre :  La Liste de Schindler
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C'est la lecture de ce roman vrai qui a inspiré Steven Spielberg pour réaliser son célèbre film La Liste de Schindler. Comme l'a écrit le Guardian, " c'est une chose de rassembler des documents historiques et des témoignages. C'en est une autre de les ramener à la vie...

Editeur : Robert Laffont
Parution : 2015-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thomas Keneally Collection
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A powerful collection of three seminal works by Booker prize-winning author Thomas Keneally.SCHINDLER'S ARK, THE BOOK BEHIND OSCAR-WINNING FILM "SCHINDLER'S LIST": In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2020-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Book of Science and Antiquities
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A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant. Shade lives peaceably with his second wife on the shores of a bountiful lake. Conscious of ageing but still vigorous, when called on by the...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2018-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Crimes of the Father
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Thomas Keneally pulls no punches in this powerful novel about the Catholic Church's attempts to cover up cases of child abuse, and a priest who decides to help its innocent victims' fight to be heard.Expelled from the archdiocese of Sydney as a young priest for his...

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Parution : 2017-06-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Napoleon's Last Island
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On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves.The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2016-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Jacko: The Great Intruder
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With his genial air of an Australian innocent, Jacko Emptor is New York's most public trespasser, invading people's homes at random for a live television show. Until he undertakes the televised hunt for a missing woman and, finally, meets a barrier even he will not...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2014-08-14

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Télécharger le livre :  A River Town
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In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him...

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Parution : 2014-06-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Flying Hero Class
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When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the...

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Parution : 2014-06-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Towards Asmara
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During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2014-04-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Woman of the Inner Sea
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The gripping story of one woman's odyssey into the Australian outback away from tragedy and towards regaining control over her life.'Marvellous, surprising, exhausting' Observer'A remarkable, powerful novel, all the more exciting for the exotic background so vividly...

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Parution : 2014-04-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Victim of the Aurora
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'A powerful and subtle writer...a remarkable novel' Spectator'Chilling and tragic' Ruth RendellIn the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South...

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Parution : 2014-04-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Shame and the Captives
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On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a...

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Parution : 2014-04-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Homebush Boy
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In this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life - as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero, and dreamed of winning the heart of the alluring Bernadette...

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Parution : 2013-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Tyrant's Novel
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Imagine a Middle-Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  By the Line
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Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refreshingly...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Blood Red, Sister Rose
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The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  A Family Madness
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Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Bettany's Book
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'A work of towering authority: large in scope; rich in detail; overflowing with ripe humanity . . . more than an engrossing novel: it is a stirring one.' Sunday TelegraphAn enthralling novel from Thomas Keneally, set in Australia and the Sudan, and spanning the 19th and...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-09-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Playmaker
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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-01-31

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