The Tolstoy Estate [electronic resource]
Steven Conte2020
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Epic in scope, ambitious and astonishingly good, The Tolstoy Estate proclaims
Steven Conte as one of Australia's finest writers.
From the winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award, Steven Conte,
comes a powerful, densely rich and deeply affecting novel of love, war and
literature
'Grave, moving, engaging ... full of the flash and fire of dramatic incident,
but also full of real feeling, humour and poignancy, and equipped with plenty of
panache ... It deserves the widest possible readership.' The Saturday Paper
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German
military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at
Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of
the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russian
woman, Katerina Trubetzkaya, a writer who has been left in charge of the estate.
But even as a tentative friendship develops between them, Bauer'...
Main title:
The Tolstoy Estate [electronic resource] / Steven Conte
Author:
Steven Conte, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (416 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781460712573
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
434211
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |