The Tolstoy Estate / Steven Conte.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2020.Description: 410 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781460758823
- 146075882X
- 9781460712573
- 1460712579
- 9781460784266
- 146078426X
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Australian fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Physicians -- Fiction
- Military hospitals -- Fiction
- War -- Relief of sick and wounded -- Fiction
- Authors, Russian -- Fiction
- Germans -- Russia -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Russia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | CON | Available | 062172 |
Multiple formats will be published.
Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
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's hostile and arrogant commanding officer, Julius Metz, becomes erratic and unhinged as the war turns against the Germans. Over the course of six weeks, in the terrible winter of 1941, everything starts to unravel.
