Everything Flows" is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn & Robert Chandlers superb translation makes it a joy to read
- Antony Beevor. Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalins death he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivans fate: his cousin Nikolay a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career Pinegin the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps & Anna Sergeyevna Ivans lover who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3. " Everything Flows" is Vasily Grossmans final testament written after the Soviet authorities suppressed " Life & Fate". Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR
- Martin Amis."