Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Heather Morris discussing her novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

In 1942 Lale Sokolov was on the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. In the position of Tatowierer Lale is able to use his relative privilege to smuggle food to starving prisoners and provide some modicum of solace in their lives. When he meets Gita he finds his own life transformed and vows to survive and live a life with the woman he loves. Based on a true story, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an incredible evocation of the strength of the human spirit.