Author Description

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from hundreds of letters, diary entries and original sources, prize-winning author Jonathan Kis-Lev tells the fascinating, untold story of the mentorship between Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. This unlikely friendship between the 40-year-old Indian lawyer and the 80-year-old Russian writer led to the end of British India and set the stage for the American Civil Rights Movement and Mandela's end of South African Apartheid. It all began with one shy lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi, who dared writing to his long-time guru, Leo Tolstoy. Why Tolstoy chose to respond to the yet-to-be-known lawyer, an how their friendship developed is unveiled in this riveting historical novel.