Everything Flows

"As eloquent a memorial to the anonymous little man in the Stalinist state as Dr Zhivago is to the artistic spirit in post-Czarist Russia and The First Circle to the scientific intelligentsia" New York Times "Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR" Martin Amis "Possibly the greatest chronicler of the second world war" Guardian "Only Dante, in his account of Ugolino and his sons starving to death in a locked tower, has written of death from hunger with equal power" -- Robert Chandler London Review of Books "Supplies a wealth of information about the social context and Soviet terminology" -- Christopher Taylor Guardian