A novel exploring the mentorship between Tolstoy and Gandhi, shaping history through their unlikely friendship.
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A novel exploring the mentorship between Tolstoy and Gandhi, shaping history through their unlikely friendship.
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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...
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Moderate focus on spiritual and moral philosophies of Tolstoy and Gandhi.
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Major themes of anti-colonialism and nonviolent resistance central to the narrative.
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Moderate depiction of systemic oppression under British colonial rule.
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