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Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941 he became a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper, Red Star, reporting on the defence of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the consequences of the Holocaust, work collected in A Writer at War. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of it being published for another 200 years. Grossman began Everything Flows in 1955 and was still working on it during his last days in hospital in September 1964.As eloquent a memorial to the anonymous little man in the Stalinist state as <i>Dr Zhivago</i> is to the artistic spirit in post-Czarist Russia and <i>The First Circle</i> to the scientific intelligentsia
New York Times
<b>Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR</b><b></b>
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
Beautiful and philosophical narrative of lives and lamentation... a thoughtful polemic
Irish Times
This is a genuinely visionary work of art, and a worthy sequel to Grossman's magnum opus <i>Life and Fate</i>
- Chandrahas Choudury, Daily Telegraph
This is a story that needs to be heard
- Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday
This tremendous book has the power to make you weep at man's inhumanity to man and, at the same time, rejoice that freedom does not die. Thanks to Robert Chandler and his co-translators, Elizabeth Chandler and Anna Aslanyan, the Russian voice positively sings.
- Lucy Popescu, Independent
A powerful work...It shows us the perplexity of an old man coming home after 30 years in a gulag to find society much changed and is the work of a true visionary.
Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up
Ivan Grigoryevich walks free after thirty years in the Gulag, but freedom feels as strange and fragile as captivity did.
Everything Flows follows Ivan as he returns to a country that has learned to survive through silence. Friends have compromised, neighbours have informed on each other, and even love has been shaped by fear.
Haunted by prison camps and betrayal, Ivan struggles not only to find work or shelter, but to understand how ordinary people endured, and enabled, terror.
Conversations with his cousin Nikolay and informer Pinegin force him to confront guilt, complicity and the quiet moral collapse that lingers long after the dictator’s death.
Set in the aftermath of Stalin’s regime, Everything Flows is both intimate and devastating: a reckoning with loss, responsibility, and the cost of surviving in a totalitarian state.
'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read' Anthony Beevor
'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis