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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2007

Page count
  
374

ISBN
  
9780732285166

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Publication date
  
2007

Pages
  
374

Author
  
Steven Conte

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

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Publisher
  
Fourth Estate, Australia

The Zookeeper's War (2007) is a novel by Australian author Steven Conte. It won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2008.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel tells the story of Vera Frey, a young Australian who marries the heir to a Berlin zoo just prior to World War II. As the zoos workers are conscripted and replaced by PoWs, Vera and her husband Axel fight to maintain the zoo's standards and to survive as the world about them disintegrates.

Reviews

  • John Bailey in The Age noted: "Conte's prose style is unhurried and unforced, rarely indulging in acrobatic feats and only occasionally hinting at the journeyman status sometimes evident in first novels."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2008 shortlisted Commonwealth Writer's Prize — South East Asia and South Pacific Region - Best First Novel
  • 2008 winner Prime Minister's Literary Award — Fiction

    • References

    The Zookeeper's War Wikipedia
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