And Quiet Flows The Don

Author: Mikhail Sholokhov

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  • : 22.99 AUD
  • : 9780241284407
  • : Penguin UK
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  • : March 2017
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  • : March 2017
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Barcode 9780241284407
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Description

'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and revolution - among them the proud and rebellious Gregor Melekhov, who struggles to be with the woman he loves as his country is torn apart. Borne of Mikhail Sholokhov's own early life in the lands of the Cossacks by the river Don, it is a searing portrait of a nation swept up in conflict, with all the tragic choices it brings.

Reviews

The work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace -- Maxim Gorky The finest realist novel about the Revolution New York Times A work of undoubted literary distinction Guardian