[Review] The Trials of Vasily Grossman, by Aaron Lake Smith | Harper's Magazine
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July 2019 Issue [Reviews]

The Trials of Vasily Grossman

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A twentieth-century Tolstoy and his forgotten novel

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Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 1,088 pages. $27.95.

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, by Alexandra Popoff. Yale University Press. 424 pages. $32.50.

Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler. New York Review Books. 904 pages. $24.95.

An Armenian Sketchbook, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 160 pages. $14.95.

Vasily Grossman (left) at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin,…

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is a writer from North Carolina. His article “Light in the Donbass Window” was published online in November.

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