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4⭐️ This is an excellent companion to Stalingrad and Life & Fate. I hope that one day we‘ll have a world free of any kind of wars.

Parking myself at Starbucks 🤓

Hair salon with Vasily Grossman 😝

Thank you so much Amy! Sea Salt and Caramel are my favorites too! I can‘t wait to start reading!! Thank you!!
Thank you @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting!

I tried. I really did. But, unlike other Russian novels that I've enjoyed, this goes so deep into the Soviet political and war machines that I just couldn't get into it. It might work for someone else! #boxwalla

5⭐️ I don‘t know how Grossman had the strength to write about human suffering, and the most terrible parts of Russia‘s recent history. This is another difficult but rewarding read; the part about the Terror Famine is painful to digest it‘s unforgettable. I‘m emotionally bruised now, but I‘m determined to read all of his works

Current read. I will never forget Stalingrad and Life & Fate, and I have the feeling that this is another powerful work by Grossman

5⭐️ I was in awe of the cruelty in fascist and totalitarian regimes, of forcing people to choose between survival and acting on their conscience. I must admit that I lost my faith in humanity halfway through the book, and was reminded by Grossman himself as he wrote: “But I do believe in the future. I believe that it is not only man‘s power that will evolve, but also his soul, his capacity to love.”

“I was a fool then, and I‘m still a fool now.”

THE END 🥰

“... alive today, dead tomorrow.”

I‘m left with the last 70 pages, and feel very conflicted. This is the usual bookworm problem: excited to find out about the ending, but also sad that it‘s ending soon 🤪