AWW21 The Tolstoy Estate with Steven Conte

Winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for his debut
novel, The Zookeeper’s War, Steven Conte returns to World War II
for his stunning new book, The Tolstoy Estate. It is 1941 and
Hitler has repeated Napoleon’s 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.


Chaired by Ashley Hay