Books by Василий Семёнович Гроссман

2. Vassily Grossman, Everything Flows .  I found this more fluent and compelling than his longer Life and Fate ; it's the story of a man who returns home from a concentration camp.  Recommended.

4. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate .  This Soviet-era masterpiece, which covers the Battle of Stalingrad, bored me.  I have no complaint about its quality, I simply felt the time in my life is past to further digest those themes in an emotionally meaningful way.