Translated into English for the first time, by Robert Chandler, this is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of the 20th century. 'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Ami Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin'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.
