An Armenian Sketchbook (New York Review Books Classics) (USED)

Description: Product Description : An Armenian Sketchbook (New York Review Books Classics) An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last centurys mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine An Armenian Sketchbook however shows us a very different Grossman notable for his tenderness warmth and sense of funAfter the Soviet government confiscatedor as Grossman always put it arrestedLife and Fate he took on the task of revising a literal Russian translation of a long Armenian novel The novel was of little interest to him but he needed money and was evidently glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia An Armenian Sketchbook is his account of the two months he spent thereThis is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossmans works endowed with an air of absolute spontaneity as though he is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armeniaits mountains its ancient churches its peoplewhile also examining his own thoughts and moods A wonderfully human account of travel to a faraway place An Armenian Sketchbook also has the vivid appeal of a selfportrait( it is an used product )

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Brand: New York Review of Books

UPC: 9781590176184

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Country of Origin: USA United States

Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1

Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 5.02X0.47X7.99

ISBN-10: 1590176189

ISBN-13: 9781590176184

SKU: SONG1590176189

No. of Pages: 160

Type: Books

Book Title: Armenian Sketchbook

Number of Pages: 160 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

Item Height: 0.5 in

Topic: Asia / Southwest, Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Personal Memoirs, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year: 2013

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Literary Criticism, Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Weight: 6.6 Oz

Author: Vasily Grossman

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5 in

Format: Trade Paperback