I'm going to nominate The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov.
It was a victim of circumstance last month and I'd still like to read it.
Spoiler:
The Silent Steppe is an enthralling story of a family living through one of the most traumatic periods of Soviet history, as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in a family of Kazakh nomads. It encompasses the horrors of political persecution and famine in the 1930s, and culminates in the author's first hand account of the Battle of Stalingrad and his long trek home through freezing winter conditions after being wounded and discharged from the Red Army.
(from
here)
Available as pbook
here
In the US, libraries that borrow from WorldCat shouldn't have a problem obtaining a copy.
I'm also going to nominate one more book and use my other two for supporting, but I'm having a hard time deciding between three books for my second nomination...