Everything Flows (Vintage Classics)

Everything Flows (Vintage Classics)

&#39;Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler&#39;s superb translation makes it a joy to read&#39;<br /> Antony Beevor<br /> <br /> Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin&#39;s death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan&#39;s fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan&#39;s lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.<br /> <br /> Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman&#39;s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed Life and Fate.<br /> <br /> &#39;Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR&#39; Martin Amis