{"product_id":"everything-flows-isbn-9781590173282","title":"Everything Flows","description":"A New York Review Books Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\"Interspersed with meditations on Russian history, the revolution, and the nature of violence and freedom, \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e is Grossman's great moral reckoning with the crimes of Stalinism.\" —Daniel Beer,\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A half century after his death, Vasily Grossman's fiction still provides harrowing insight into the legacy of Stalinism, and the historical trauma that continues to fuel ethnic tensions within Ukraine.” —\u003ci\u003eNPR Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR\" --Martin Amis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After he submitted his  masterful World War II novel \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e to a publisher in 1960, the KGB confiscated  the manuscript, his notes and even his typewriter (the book was later smuggled out  of the country and printed in 1974). But this didn’t quiet Grossman, whose indictments  of Stalinist Russia were at least as damning as those of George Orwell and Aleksandr  Solzhenitsyn. Understandably bitter over the suppression of his work, the author  worked on \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e—a shorter, but even more eviscerating, meditation on the  monstrous results of the Soviet experiment—until his death from cancer in 1964. This  new translation brings his searing vision to light... Fortunately, the KGB couldn’t  keep Grossman’s books under wraps forever. His testament stands as a fitting tribute  to the millions of voices that were prematurely silenced.\"—Drew Toal,\u003ci\u003e Time Out New  York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...a richly-woven narrative of historical events and individual destinies — a masterpiece of pain, moral outrage and gallows humour. Grossman has become recognised not only as one of the great war novelists of all time but also as one of the first and most important of witnesses to the defence of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin, the consequences of the Holocaust\" \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eBusiness Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"brilliant and courageous novel...readers will find hope in the narrator's  uncommon capacity to forgive and accept.\"–\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few novels confront human  suffering on as massive a scale as this one....Grossman's individual by individual  portrayal of anguish gives readers a heartrending glimpse of the incomprehensible.  \" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable...it trembles  with the vision of freedom.\"  --Irving Howe, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[I]t is as eloquent  a memorial to the anonymous  little man in the Stalinist state as \u003ci\u003eDr. Zhivago\u003c\/i\u003e is  to the artistic spirit in post-Czarist  Russia and \u003ci\u003eThe First Circle\u003c\/i\u003e to the scientific  intelligentsia.\" --Thomas Lask, \u003ci\u003eThe  New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grossman traces the blame for  the terror of the Stalin years back  through Lenin, to the roots of the Russian character,  to the mystical national soul  that Russians have always considered their greatest  strength...Grossman put his finger  on the crux of the issue as today's Russians  see it: What responsibility do they  bear for the horrors perpetrated in the course  of Russian and Soviet history?\" --\u003ci\u003eLos  Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eVasily Semyonovich Grossman was born on December 12, 1905, in Berdichev, a Ukrainian town that was home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities. In 1934 he published both “In the Town of Berdichev”—a short story that won the admiration of such diverse writers as Maksim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Isaak Babel—and a novel, \u003ci\u003eGlyukauf\u003c\/i\u003e, about the life of the Donbass miners. During the Second World War, Grossman worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star, covering nearly all of the most important battles from the defense of Moscow to the fall of Berlin. His vivid yet sober “The Hell of Treblinka” (late 1944), one of the first articles in any language about a Nazi death camp, was translated and used as testimony in the Nuremberg trials. His novel \u003ci\u003eFor a Just Cause\u003c\/i\u003e (originally titled \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e) was published in 1952 and then fiercely attacked. A new wave of purges—directed against the Jews—was about to begin; but for Stalin’s death in March 1953, Grossman would almost certainly have been arrested. During the next few years Grossman, while enjoying public success, worked on his two masterpieces, neither of which was to be published in Russia until the late 1980s: \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e. The KGB confiscated the manuscript of\u003ci\u003e Life and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e in February 1961. Grossman was able, however, to continue working on \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e, a work even more critical of Soviet society than \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, until his last days in the hospital. He died on September 14, 1964, on the eve of the twenty-third anniversary of the massacre of the Jews of Berdichev, in which his mother had died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Chandler’s translations of Sappho and Guillaume Apollinaire are published in the series “Everyman’s Poetry.” His translations from Russian include Vasily Grossman’s \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, Leskov’s \u003ci\u003eLady Macbeth of Mtsensk\u003c\/i\u003e and Aleksander Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eDubrovsky \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Captain’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. Together with his wife, Elizabeth, and other colleagues he has co-translated numerous works by Andrey Platonov. One of these, \u003ci\u003eSoul\u003c\/i\u003e, was chosen in 2004 as “best translation of the year from a Slavonic language” by the AATSEEL (the American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages); it was also shortlisted for the 2005 Rossica Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld European Translation Prize. Robert Chandler’s translation of Hamid Ismailov’s \u003ci\u003eThe Railway\u003c\/i\u003e won the AATSEEL prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize. Robert Chandler is the editor of Russian Short Stories from \u003ci\u003ePushkin to Buida\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of a biography of Alexander Pushkin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Chandler is a co-translator of Platonov’s \u003ci\u003eSoul\u003c\/i\u003e and Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Captain’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Aslanyan’s translations into Russian include works of fiction by Mavis Gallant, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Rod Liddle, and Ali Smith. She is a contributor to the BBC Russian Service.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302446026981,"sku":"NP9781590173282","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173282.jpg?v=1767726470","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/everything-flows-isbn-9781590173282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}