Who Killed Tolstoy? | Elif Batuman | Granta

Who Killed Tolstoy?

Elif Batuman

‘I walked along the birch-lined alleys of Yasnaya Polyana, looking for clues. Snakes were swimming in the pond, making a rippling pattern. Everything here was a museum.’

Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, LRB and the Guardian. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is her first book.

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