"The Road "brings together short stories, journalism, essays,
and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of "Life and Fate, "
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. "The Road" 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.
Meticulously edited and presented by Robert Chandler, "The
Road" allows us to see one of the great figures of
twentieth-century literature discovering his calling both as a
writer and as a man.
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