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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 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 ...