Robert Shuster
"Set against the historic fall of Berlin, [To Zenzi] vibrates with emotion...a sweeping portrait of survival..." —KIRKUS REVIEWS
Robert Shuster
@robertshuster - Author
Robert Shuster
@robertshuster - Author
Robert L. Shuster’s To Zenzi won the 2021 Foreword Indie Gold Award in War Fiction, the 2019 AWP Novel Prize, and a James Jones First Novel Fellowship... more
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To Zenzi
"Set against the historic fall of Berlin, this debut novel vibrates with emotion...a sweeping portrait of survival..." —KIRKUS REVIEWS To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig’s odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobi...
About me
Robert L. Shuster’s To Zenzi won the 2021 Foreword Indie Gold Award in War Fiction, the 2019 AWP Novel Prize, and a James Jones First Novel Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Witness, and The Mississippi Review, among others. There's more at robertshuster.com.
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