{"product_id":"the-road-stories-journalism-and-essays-paperback","title":"The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVasily Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate, \u003c\/i\u003e providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, \"In the Town of Berdichev,\" a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as \"Mama,\" based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head of the NKVD and packed off to an orphanage after her father's downfall. The girl grows up struggling with the discovery that the parents she cherishes in memory are part of a collective nightmare that everyone else wishes to forget. \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e also includes the complete text of Grossman's harrowing report from Treblinka, one of the first anatomies of the workings of a death camp; \"The Sistine Madonna,\" a reflection on art and atrocity; as well as two heartbreaking letters that Grossman wrote to his mother after her death at the hands of the Nazis and carried with him for the rest of his life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meticulously edited and presented by Robert Chandler, \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to see one of the great figures of twentieth-century literature discovering his calling both as a writer and as a man.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 Isaak Babel, Maksim Gorky, and Boris Pilnyak--and a novel, Glyukauf, about the life of the Donbass miners. During the Second World War, Grossman worked as a war correspondent 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 For a Just Cause (originally titled Stalingrad) was published in 1952 and then fiercely attacked. A new wave of purges--directed against the Jews--was about to begin; if not 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: Life and Fate and Everything Flows. The KGB confiscated the manuscript of Life and Fate in February 1961. Grossman was able, however, to continue working on Everything Flows, a novel even more critical of Soviet society than Life and Fate, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Chandler has edited and translated numerous Russian titles, including Vasily Grossman's \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRussian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of a biography of Alexander Pushkin. He has co-translated numerous works by Andrey Platonov, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eSoul\u003c\/i\u003e, which is published by NYRB Classics. He lives in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElizabeth Chandler is a co-translator of Andrey Platonov's \u003ci\u003eSoul\u003c\/i\u003e and Alexander Pushkin's \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlga Mukovnikova is a freelance translator, translation reviser for Amnesty International, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.1 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771232125216,"sku":"9781590173619","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0604cd95a4605c52f550f325b94a3a40.webp?v=1780383593","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-road-stories-journalism-and-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}