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Creates a vast, vast world, and doesn’t hesitate to jump between characters:
- Lyudmila, whose son is killed in battle at Stalingrad
- Victor, her husband, whose mother (a Jew) was killed by the SS
- Abarchuk, Lyudmila’s former husband, now a political prisoner in the gulag in Siberia
To name only three. Grossman captures the pathos of an era, the people “forgotten in those unforgettable years”
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- Lyudmila, whose son is killed in battle at Stalingrad
- Victor, her husband, whose mother (a Jew) was killed by the SS
- Abarchuk, Lyudmila’s former husband, now a political prisoner in the gulag in Siberia
To name only three. Grossman captures the pathos of an era, the people “forgotten in those unforgettable years”
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Ian
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This book is great. Definitely feeling Russian, it’s making me think of some Chekhov and Tolstoy short stories I’ve read — and Dostoevsky — meets Stalingrad.
“War and Peace” but 20th century is what I heard going in. Grossman is a really good writer.
— Oct 11, 2026 05:23PM
“War and Peace” but 20th century is what I heard going in. Grossman is a really good writer.