Vasily Grossman
Soviet Jewish author whose wartime journalism and novel Life and Fate represent one of the most powerful literary responses to World War II and the Holocaust. His masterwork was suppressed by Soviet authorities for decades.
Works
- Life and FateEpic novel spanning World War II tracking individual lives amid totalitarian oppression
- Forever FlowingNovel of spiritual awakening through an old communist intellectual's late-life reflections
- StalingradEpic World War II battle novel depicting the siege of Stalingrad and human endurance
- The Hell of TreblinkaJournalistic investigation of Nazi genocide at Treblinka concentration camp
- An Armenian Sketchbook