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The Road: Short Fiction and Essays

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Description for The Road: Short Fiction and Essays Paperback. The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first time. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 400 pages, B and w photographs. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 272.

By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh.

Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative - illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary vividness for which he has become known.

In addition to the eleven stories, this volume includes the complete text of 'The Hell of Treblinka', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857381941
SKU
V9780857381941
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

About Vasily Grossman
VASILY SEMIONOVICH GROSSMAN (1905-1964) was born into a Jewish family in Berdichev, in what is now Ukraine. In 1934 he published both "In the Town of Berdichev" - a short story that won him immediate acclaim - and the novel Glückauf, about Donbas miners. During the Second World War, he worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star; ... Read more

Reviews for The Road: Short Fiction and Essays
'Grossman deserves a special, if not revered, place as a recorder of some of the worst excesses of the 20th century - indeed, of any century. A casual reader may be lured into thinking this to be a collection of fictional short stories depicting the hardships and privations of Soviet life. But on page 126 comes an abrupt and horrifying ... Read more

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