Gossip from the Forest - Softcover

Thomas Keneally

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340431040 ISBN 13: 9780340431047

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1988

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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. Price: GBP5.99 Edition: Second Format:198 x 129 mm Imprint: Sceptre Markets: BCN ex Can Four of Thomas Keneally's novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize and SCHINDLER'S ARK (filmed by Steven Spielberg as Schindler's List) has sold more copies than any other Booker Prize-winner. He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN, about the American Southwest. BIRTHPLACE: New South Wales, Australia.W HEREABOUTS: Sydney, Australia PREVIOUS BOOKS: INCLUDE BLOOD RED, SISTER ROSE; CONFEDERATES; THE PLAYMAKER; THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN; A FAMILY MADNESS; TOWARDS ASMARA; WOMAN OF THE INNER SEA; JACKO; SCHINDLER'S LIST THE PROMOTION * Part of the new Sceptre relaunch SELLING POINTS (1) Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2) Publication will coincide with Keneally's new novel A RIVER TOWN and the paperback of JACKO. (3) Author PR on publication. Keneally will be here to take part in the Sceptre promotion.

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About the Author:

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, and Shame and the Captives. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.

Review:

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image * The Sunday Times * As fiction it is absorbing and as history it achieves the kind of significance earned only by sympathy acting on deep knowledge...Keneally's book belongs...with those like Solzhenitsyn's AUGUST 1914, books that delineate the past in sympathetic depth and so urge the reader to enter it * New York Times Book Review * Extremely gripping, as well as important historical fiction * New Statesman *

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