The Tolstoy estate
Conte, Steven, 1966-2020
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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.
Main title:
The Tolstoy estate / Steven Conte.
Author:
Conte, Steven, 1966-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2020.
Collation:
410 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781460758823 (pbk.)146075882X (pbk.)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- FictionTolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- FictionPhysicians -- Germany -- FictionPhysicians -- FictionAristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union -- FictionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union -- FictionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- FictionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Russia (Federation) -- FictionWar -- Relief of sick and wounded -- FictionMilitary hospitals -- FictionAuthors, Russian -- FictionGermans -- Russia -- FictionRussia -- History -- 20th century -- FictionFriendship -- FictionYasnaya Polyana (Estate) -- FictionAustralian fictionWar fictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
108906