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Chevengur
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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I could no longer deny what the heat in my cheeks meant when I was
around Flynn. I was falling for my sister's boyfriend. There's just
something about Flynn. Yes, he's a tall, unbelievably gorgeous,
dark-haired football player, but ...he's also sweet and nice and
super easy to talk to. It's lucky I'm the photographer for the
school paper, because my camera likes Flynn almost as much as I do.
Unfortunately for me, so does my sister, and there's no way I can
nab Flynn with her in the picture. But could this be the real
thing?
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Chevengur (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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A celebrated masterpiece available in its full version in English
for the first time. A Soviet Don Quixote from one of the greatest
20th-century prose writers, author of The Foundation Pit and Soul.
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
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The People Immortal (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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R288
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate
and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's
small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable novel
that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal
horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight"
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reasons for reading
Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" Financial Times
"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy"
Telegraph "Grossman combines a journalist's eye with a novelist's
empathy" Spectator Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's
first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor
victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German
advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out
and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces. Grossman's
descriptions of the natural world - and his characters'
relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his
memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined
to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the
face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who
initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they
treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and
gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most
resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers. Grossman spent most of
the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as
letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a
textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition
includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for
the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background
material. A heavily redacted English translation of The People
Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first
that reflects Grossman's original text. Translated from the Russian
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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Stalingrad (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler; Edited by Robert Chandler, Yury Bit-Yunan
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'One of the great novels of the 20th century' Observer In April
1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern
Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.
Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers
and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that
is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for
a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee;
Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love
with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from
his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. The war will
consume the lives of a huge cast of characters - lives which
express Grossman's grand themes of the nation and the individual,
nature's beauty and war's cruelty, love and separation. For months,
Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance
eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the
invaders and victory. The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga
River. The battle for Stalingrad - a maelstrom of violence and
firepower - will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle
of a new sense of hope. Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only
of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and
daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political
officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. It is tender, epic, and a
testament to the power of the human spirit. 'You will not only
discover that you love his characters and want to stay with them -
that you need them in your life as much as you need your own family
and loved ones - but that at the end... you will want to read it
again' Daily Telegraph THE PREQUEL TO LIFE AND FATE NOW AVAILABLE
IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME, STALINGRAD IS A SUNDAY TIMES
BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA WINNER OF MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION "LOIS ROTH AWARD" FOR TRANSLATIONS FROM ANY LANGUAGE
Secrets taken to the grave don't always stay buried.
In "No Time to Die," Jenny is devastated by the recent death of her
sister, Liza. Looking for a sense of closure, she secretly signs up
for the drama camp where Liza died. Jenny knows that someone here
holds the key to what really happened to Liza that night, but if
she doesn't find out the truth soon, she may become the next
victim.
In "The Deep End of Fear," Kate has tried to bury the horrible
memories associated with the Westbrook estate. After her best
friend Ashley drowned on the estate, Kate vowed never to return.
But now, twelve years later, she is drawn back towards the house
and that fatal icy pond. There, Kate still feels Ashley's presence
and the past seems to be pulling her back towards Ashley's
life-threatening dares.
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The People Immortal (Hardcover)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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R643
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate
and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's
small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable novel
that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal
horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight"
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reasons for reading
Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" Financial Times
"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy"
Telegraph "Grossman combines a journalist's eye with a novelist's
empathy" Spectator Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's
first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor
victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German
advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out
and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces. Grossman's
descriptions of the natural world - and his characters'
relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his
memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined
to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the
face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who
initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they
treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and
gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most
resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers. Grossman spent most of
the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as
letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a
textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition
includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for
the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background
material. A heavily redacted English translation of The People
Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first
that reflects Grossman's original text. Translated from the Russian
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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Stalingrad (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring
Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the
outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short
fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative
- illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate
all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary
vividness for which he has become known. In addition to the eleven
stories, this volume includes the complete text of 'The Hell of
Treblinka', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination
camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only
weeks after the camp was dissolved. Beautifully illuminated by
Robert Chandler's introductions and endnotes, with photographs from
the family archive, and an Afterword by Grossman's stepson, Fyodor
Guber.
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Everything Flows (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Robert Chandler; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan
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A New York Review Books Original
"Everything Flows" is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written
after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and
Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the
Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for
himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take
in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan's story is only one
among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan's cousin, Nikolay, a
scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career,
and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a
brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of
informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable
things that he did--inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in
Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the
core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's
lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the
Terror famine of 1932-33, which led to the deaths of three to five
million Ukrainian peasants. Here "Everything Flows" attains an
unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante's
"Inferno."
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The People Immortal (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler; Introduction by Robert Chandler; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler; Afterword by Julia Volohova
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An Armenian Sketchbook (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler
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Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass
tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above
all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the
Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the
Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different
Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for
the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing.
After the 'arrest' - as Grossman always put it - of Life and Fate,
Grossman took on the task of editing a literal Russian translation
of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to
him, but he was glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. This is his
account of the two months he spent there. It is by far the most
personal and intimate of Grossman's works, with an air of absolute
spontaneity, as though Grossman is simply chatting to the reader
about his impressions of Armenia - its mountains, its ancient
churches and its people.
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The Foundation Pit (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson
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TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSON
Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet
workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant
future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to
violence and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a
foundation pit but an immense grave. This new translation, by
Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson, is based on the
definitive edition recently published by Pushkin House in
Leningrad. All previous translations were done from a seriously
bowdlerized text. Robert Chandler is also the translator of Vasily
Grossman's Life and Fate. The American scholar Olga Meerson has
written extensively on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Platonov and many other
Russian authors.
Let Sleeping Ghosts Lie
Twelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a
stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy
pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to
tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old
says he talks to Ashley by the pond. He does dangerous, deadly
things because, he says, "Ashley dared me to." Just as Ashley once
dared a shy, little Kate twelve years ago.
But at seventeen Kate is not so easily intimidated by "Ashley"
or hostile members of her family or the forbidding housekeeper.
Then Sam, the handsome stranger to whom kate is irresistibly drawn,
reveals a tragic piece of the puzzle that connects him to Kate. Sam
tells Kate to leave -- either out of concern for her or due to a
festering anger, she's not sure. But kate will not abandon Patrick
to the evil that is haunting him and "threatens to destroy them
all."
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The People Immortal (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate
and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's
small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable novel
that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal
horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight"
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reasons for reading
Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" Financial Times
"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy"
Telegraph "Grossman combines a journalist's eye with a novelist's
empathy" Spectator Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's
first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor
victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German
advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out
and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces. Grossman's
descriptions of the natural world - and his characters'
relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his
memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined
to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the
face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who
initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they
treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and
gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most
resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers. Grossman spent most of
the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as
letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a
textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition
includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for
the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background
material. A heavily redacted English translation of The People
Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first
that reflects Grossman's original text. Translated from the Russian
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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Soul (Paperback)
Andrey Platonov; Introduction by John Berger; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson, Robert Chandler
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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH
CHANDLER 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once
wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist
of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as
a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his
childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting
novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a
rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is
shown at his wisest and most humane. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN
BERGER
"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.
Athletic Jamie isn't sure about spending the summer in the city
with her romance-novel-writing mum. But when she meets irresistible
Josh, Jamie realizes she could probably use all the romance advice
she can get!Lacrosse camp 9 a.m.-noon (can't be late! "Coach" Josh
will freak out) Basketball camp 1:00-4:00 (so many screaming kids.
. . ) Shopping with Mona 4:30 (finally a break) Date with Andrew
7:30 (he's so perfect. . . isn't he?)
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