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A fascinating biographical novel offering insight into one of history's most misrepresented marriages: the Tolstoys.'Like Hilary Mantel, in her Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall, Armstrong puts her scholarly imagination to work on a known period and a set of famous figures. At the heart of it is Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's best loved heroine, seen from the anguished vision of Tolstoy's wife Sonya.''I always write my diary when we quarrel. There are still days when we quarrel, but for delicate, emotional reasons, and we wouldn't quarrel if we didn't love each other. He often says that this isn't really love, but that we have grown so used each other now we cannot live without each other. But I still love him with the same restless, passionate, jealous and poetic love'In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting countless drafts of his timeless novels. Both were mercurial and personalities and, towards the end and exhausted, T

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Author

Armstrong, Judith

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781742667614

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction