Everything Flows
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099519164 (009951916X)
Publish date: May 5th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 290
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Politics,
Russia,
Russian Literature
Introduction--Everything FlowsNotesChronologyA Note on Collectivisation and the Terror FaminePeople, Places and OrganisationsBiographical NoteFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsAn Afterword by Yekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
This is not a novel but as another reviewer has quite rightly pointed out, a verdict. Nor is it complete, Vasily Grossman began it in 1955 and was still revising it during his last days in the hospital in September 1964. Grossman was also one of the first witnesses of the consequences of the Holocau...
I hestitated giving this book 5 stars because, although it is amazing, there were parts of it I didn't enjoy that much. The story starts out simply enough: Ivan Grigoyevich is released from Gulag after 30 years. The novel takes us though his story, his cousin's (who doesn't agree with the regime but...
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