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The Zookeeper's War

The Zookeeper's War

by Steven Conte
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2007

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An extraordinary debut, a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...

In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo's director. together, they struggle to look after the animals through the air raids and food shortages. When the zoo's staff is drafted into the army, forced labourers are sent in as replacements. At first, Vera finds the idea abhorrent, but gradually she realises that the new workers are the zoo's only hope, and forms an unlikely bond with one of them. this is a city where a foreign accent is a constant source of suspicion, where busybodies report the names of neighbours' dinner guests to the Gestapo. As tensions mount in the closing days of the war, nothing, and no one, it seems, can be trusted. the Zookeeper's War is a powerful novel of a marriage, and of a city collapsing. It confronts not only the brutality of war but the possibility of heroism - and delivers an ending that is both shocking and deeply moving. 'Beautifully textured and extremely well realised ... a clever, inspired, insightful, tension-filled drama' BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER
ISBN:
9780732285166
9780732285166
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
211x140x23mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Steven Conte

Steven Conte studied Professional Writing at the University of Canberra and Australian Literature at the Australian Defence Force Academy (as a civilian). He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Barman, life model, taxi driver, public servant, university tutor and book reviewer are some of the jobs with which he has supported his writing.

Steven's debut novel The Zookeeper's War won the inaugural Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and was also shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and for the 2007 Christina Stead Award for Fiction. The novel was published in the UK and Ireland and translated into Spanish.

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