Fiction

War & Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong

Item: War & Peace and Sonya
Author: Carol Middleton

by Carol Middleton •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

Pier 9, $29.99 pb, 249 pp, 9781742665405

Fiction

War & Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong

by Carol Middleton •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

Judith Armstrong, a Russian and French scholar, has translated the diaries of Tolstoy’s wife, Sonya, to form the focus of her second novel. Armstrong combines an intimate knowledge of Russian literature with a close reading of the couple’s diaries to create a convincing portrait of their volatile relationship through forty-eight years of marriage.

Carol Middleton

By this contributor

Carol Middleton is a journalist, arts critic and author, based in Melbourne. Her short story awards include second place in The Age competition 2010. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the anthologies Melbourne Subjective, Ink3 and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is working on a memoir in essays.