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One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become...

Vasily Grossman's third great war novel, written before Life and Fate and Stalingrad

One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."There are always good reasons for reading Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own. As a proud son of Ukraine, steeped in Russian culture, Grossman was both a chronicler of the Soviet Union's greatest victories and a clear-eyed investigator of some of its darkest crimes." John Thornhill, Financial TimesSet during the catastrophic defeats of the war's f...

Vasily Grossman's third great war novel, written before Life and Fate and Stalingrad, and translated for the first time since 1946

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth BranaghIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final ...

The prequel to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the 20th Century, now in English for the first time.Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life and Fate is only the second half of a two-part work, the first half of which was published in 1952. Grossman wanted to call this earlier work Stalingrad--as it will be in this first English translation--but it was published as...

Vasily Grossman (Author) Vasily Grossman (1905-64) is best known as the author of Life and Fate, rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century.Among his most acclaimed works of fiction are Stalingrad, Life and Fate, Everything Flows and the short stories collected in The Road. A Writer at War collects Grossman¿s notebooks, war diaries, personal correspondence and newspaper articles from his time as a war reporter.Robert ...

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Focuses on the hazards of ordinary consumer products. This title shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work and states that consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders.

The author of "Life & Fate" reflects on a season spent in Armenia. By far the most personal and intimate of Grossman's works, as the author 'chats' to the reader about Armenia's mountains, its ancient churches, and its people.

The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev, " a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as "Mama, " based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head...

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Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. The consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reprodu...

A close examination of the questions facing communities across the United States where dam removal is on the environmental and political agenda.. Dams and diversions along America's rivers have transformed the country and in doing so created environmental problems whose resolution will, in many ways, determine how we live in the next century. There are over 75, 000 dams in the country and almost no major river in the country remains undammed. ...

The Road rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev, " a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as "Mama, " based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head ...