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20 reviewsWritten by Vasily Grossman
Unedited Translation by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Includes an Introduction written by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
In the annals of the world's history there are very few writers who have had to confront, or in turn been emotionally effected by, as many tragedies en-masse as those of the Ukrainian Author Vasily Grossman. Over his career as a writer he witnessed and covered some of humanity's worst ever incidents, his writing often describing with terrifying clarity some of the most unspeakable of atrocities.
Illustrated with some very rare and candid family photographs, An Armenian Sketchbook shows us a vastly different side to this already well known writers personality and takes place during a time when he was at his lowest ebb as a writer. Nonetheless despite dealing with all of this we get to see and experience him displaying acts of tenderness and genuine warmth to all those around him. Perhaps one of the most surprising revelations of all given the background issues he was dealing with in this stressful time, was his sense of mischievous teasing, playfulness and all round energetic fun.
Vasily Grossman had just had his recently submitted novel - Life And Fate - 'arrested' by the KGB and the Soviet state and had been told that it would never be published anywhere in his own lifetime. In need of something to distract himself from these acts of suppression, he took on the task of revising a literal Russian/Ukrainian translation of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel itself was of little interest to him, but he had need of the funds he would earn for doing it and was happy and willing to travel there in order to do so. An Armenian Sketchbook is the account of that 8 week journey inside of that country while he was working as a translator.
