Virgin Soil Upturned
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s, Virgin Soil Upturned chronicles the seismic upheaval visited upon a small Don Cossack village as Communist Party activist Semyon Davydov arrives to dismantle centuries of agrarian tradition and reshape the lives of its fiercely independent inhabitants. Mikhail Sholokhov presents a rich, panoramic portrait of a community torn between the old world and the new, capturing the violence, hope, comedy, and tragedy that erupt when ideology collides with deeply rooted human instinct. Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings to this epic narrative the same unflinching realism and compassionate insight that distinguished And Quiet Flows the Don, rendering even his most morally compromised characters with startling psychological depth. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry, the novel stands as one of the most important works of 20th-century Soviet literature — a document of historical conscience that asks whether progress, however brutal its cost, can ever truly be separated from the souls it consumes.
Author: Mikhail Sholokhov
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, Putnam, London
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s, Virgin Soil Upturned chronicles the seismic upheaval visited upon a small Don Cossack village as Communist Party activist Semyon Davydov arrives to dismantle centuries of agrarian tradition and reshape the lives of its fiercely independent inhabitants. Mikhail Sholokhov presents a rich, panoramic portrait of a community torn between the old world and the new, capturing the violence, hope, comedy, and tragedy that erupt when ideology collides with deeply rooted human instinct. Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings to this epic narrative the same unflinching realism and compassionate insight that distinguished And Quiet Flows the Don, rendering even his most morally compromised characters with startling psychological depth. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry, the novel stands as one of the most important works of 20th-century Soviet literature — a document of historical conscience that asks whether progress, however brutal its cost, can ever truly be separated from the souls it consumes.