Author | : Mikhail Sholokhov |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Release Date | : 2017-02-02 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780241284414 |
Pages | : 624 pages |
Rating | : 4.4/5 (844 users) |
Download or read book And Quiet Flows the Don written by Mikhail Sholokhov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and revolution - among them the proud and rebellious Gregor Melekhov, who struggles to be with the woman he loves as his country is torn apart. Borne of Mikhail Sholokhov's own early life in the lands of the Cossacks by the river Don, it is a searing portrait of a nation swept up in conflict, with all the tragic choices it brings.