AWW21 The Tolstoy Estate with Steven Conte
Winner of the Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Award for his debut novel, The Zookeeper\u2019s War, Steven Conte returns to World War II for his stunning new book, The Tolstoy Estate. It is 1941 and Hitler has repeated Napoleon\u2019s fatal misstep of invading Russia. In winter. A German medical unit find themselves quartered at Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral estate of Tolstoy, where surgeon Paul Bauer becomes enthralled by its Director and the legacy of the great Tolstoy that surrounds them. An epic, ambitious tale of love, war and literature.
\nChaired by Ashley Hay