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A prosperous and paranoid businessman, self-exiled to Australia, whose parents were Nazi collaborators, tries to shield his children from the evils of society. When a young married man falls in love with one of his over-protected daughters and tries to take her away, the entire family, consumed with guilt rooted in the past, commits suicide. This novel is based on an incident that took place in Sydney in 1984.
Industry Reviews
"'A Family Madness' asserts that war robs humanity of more than life or territory. Imperial absorption, by denying survivors the comfort of national history and aspiration, leaves nothing but madness....Given the lavish success of [Schindler's List], it's understandable that Keneally should write another Holocaust novel. But 'A Family Madness' is, I think, better than its applauded predecessor."
London Review of Books - John Sutherland (11/07/1985)
"Like all of Thomas Keneally's novels, 'A Family Madness' is a history lesson in which the facts are less important than the voices, the old music we can't get out of our heads....Keneally speaks here, as he always does, through a complex, echoing structure, and what we hear very clearly are the impassioned, quietly subversive tones of a just man."
Village Voice - Terence Rafferty (05/06/1986)
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