Thread: Literary Region Nominations • November 2012
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Old 11-07-2012, 05:19 PM   #30
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The first is Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov. This is a very good book set in Kiev during the German occupation of WWII.

The second is And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. I actually read this way back in high school, being inspired to it by taking an elective course in Russian history. This is actually the first half of a two novel epic about a family of Don Cossacks set over the crucial period from just prior to WWI through the following civil war in Russia.
I wasn't aware of Babi Yar, so that is another one in the TBR pile!
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