A Family Madness
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A Family Madness is a novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally that explores the lingering psychological and moral impact of World War II on a family of Eastern European refugees in Australia.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Family Madness canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Keneally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| explores |
assimilation of refugees into Australian society
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memory and forgetting of wartime atrocities ⓘ moral responsibility during wartime ⓘ |
| focusesOn | family of Eastern European refugees in Australia ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
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psychological fiction ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Australian ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Holocaust legacy
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family trauma
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lingering psychological impact of World War II ⓘ moral consequences of war ⓘ refugee experience ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hodder & Stoughton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTime | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Australia
NERFINISHED
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Eastern Europe (in characters' past) ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Thomas Keneally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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