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And Quiet Flows the Don Paperback – December 17, 1989

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WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 1965

WINNER OF THE STALIN PRIZE, 1941

Mikhail Sholokhov’s groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life and culture in the early 20th century. In the same vein as War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, And Quiet Flows the Don gives readers a glimpse into many aspects of Russian culture, and the choices a country makes when faced with war and destruction.

In his enormous epic of Cossack life during the Revolution...Mikhail Sholokhov has achieved even greater power, sustained narrative gift and stirring human truthfulness.”—New York Times

“In addition to its panoramic grandeur, the wealth of its characters and its historic realism, Sholokhov's book is memorable for its portrayal of the primitive and already almost legendary life of the Don Cossacks.”—Malcolm Cowley, New Republic

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First part of the novel Tikhy Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. The Russian novel was published between 1928 and 1940; the English translation of the first part appeared in 1934. The Don Flows Home to the Sea, part two of the original novel, was published in English translation in 1940. Set in the Don River basin of southwestern Russia at the end of the czarist period, the novel traces the progress of the Cossack Gregor Melekhov from youthful lover to Red Army soldier and finally to Cossack nationalist. War--in the form of both international conflict and civil revolution--provides the epic backdrop for the narrative and determines its tone of moral ambiguity. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

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Mikhail Sholokov was born in 1905 in a village in the Don region, of a family that had been living there for many generations. Despite poverty, he was able to attend school in Moscow. At the age of fifteen he returned to his native village to become a schoolteacher, then a statistician, a food inspector, and held various other jobs. He began writing when he was eighteen years old. Today he is the Soviet Union's most famous and widely honored living novelist. And Quiet Flows the Don was published in 1928 in the Soviet Union, and in the United States in 1934. Its sequel, The Don Flows Home to the Sea (available in Vintage Books), was finished in 1939, and appeared in America in 1940. Although each is complete in itself, the two books are often referred to under the title The Silent Don. Other volumes by Sholokov that have been translated into English are Harvest on the Don, Seeds of Tomorrow, and Tales of the Don. In 1965 Mr. Sholokov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reissue edition (December 17, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679725210
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679725213
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1.2 x 8 inches

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Randy Ross

Dr. Zhivago it aint

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2022

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This huge, complex novel would be best enjoyed by someone with extensive knowledge of the Russian Revolution and world events 1914-1918. If you’re like me, you’ll have Google ready to figure out who these characters and battles were, just to keep the novel moving along.
The novel is populated by dozens of characters who have impossible names and relationships that share the author’s unfortunate habit of using their surnames, Christian names and even nicknames to identify them at different times.
Probably the most outdated aspect of the novel is the author’s treatment of the long-suffering Cossack women who live through physical and verbal abuse by their brutish husbands and boyfriends. They are passed around and neglected by all. The author presents this as normal, with no emotions.
If you want to read about this time in Russian history, Dr, Zhivago is much more user friendly. Either way, keep your Google handy.

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Daniel Myers

And The Cossacks Flow Away

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2009

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This is a book about the Don Cossacks and the end of their centuries old way of life due to the Soviet revolution and the - almost disregarded in the West - long Civil War with the "White Russians" that ensued immediately afterwards. This is a review of a novel; so, for those prospective readers who haven't the faintest idea as to where the river Don lies or what exactly a Cossack may be, please to consult a map and historical source. This review would be far too long were I to attempt to delve into Cossack history.

Maxim Gorki - quoted on the cover of my edition - says that the only book to which this one can be compared is Tolstoy's War And Peace. Unfortunately, he is right. This book, for all that is to be said for it, is simply not of the same calibre as War And Peace. In War And Peace, we have the characters of Pierre and Natasha whom - through Tolstoy's deeply percipient eye - we come to know, suffer along with and love. Here, we have Gregor and Aksinia whom - Be honest with yourself! - we end up pitying, if even that. The problem with this work as a novel is that a wall exists between the modern, Western reader and the characters, the Cossacks, who are given to about as much introspection as the animals they tend. The only "character" that truly shines in this novel is the Don region itself, for which the reader does develop a sense of the deeply instinctual way in which the Cossacks loved it.

Sholokhov paints scenes worthy of a water-colourist or Breughel, differing as the setting and landscape suits:

"The day declined to its close. The September stillness lulled peacefully and with inexpressible sweetness. The sky had lost its full summer gleam and was a hazy dove-colour...Held down to their huts and their daily round, the people pined in their labour, exhausted their strength on the threshing-floor; and the road, a deserted, yearning track, flowed across the horizon into the unseen."

Even in the midst of war, in this description of a decapitated Cossack, Sholokhov retains this water-colourist touch:

"He had no cap, nor had he the upper part of his cranium, for it had been cut clean away by a shard of shrapnel. In the empty brain-pan, framed by damp strains of hair, glimmered rose-coloured rain-water."

The novel eventually becomes more than a bit of a slog, as the same sorts of characters do the same sorts of things under the same sorts of conditions. Nevertheless, I do recommend the book. Flowing beneath all the bestial actions, lilac prose and insufferable characters is a very Russian undercurrent of fatalism concerning a way of life drawing its last breath:

"The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again - and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass."

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Sholokhov has moment of incandescent literary brilliance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2007

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Sholokhov is no Tolstoy (as Gorki attempts to equate thuis work to War and Peace).

The Garry translation is no Maude (Tolstoy) translation equivalent.

In this opinion the long sprawling vicious and lustful affair of Gregor and Aksina, --reckless, rollicking and tragic though it was does not approach the depth and meaning of the affair of Bunchuk and Anna--the young ardent revolutionary. The GREAT tragedy in this book is their love affair, the primal. visceral, elemental love of Bunchuk for Anna and the horror of his stunned self negating nether world of mourning, Nothing in the book equals the strength of that narrative in this opinion--and there, the author walked with the greatest of the great Russian Authors despite the Stalionist stench that permeates the attempt at poetry and philosophical substance in the idealistic musings of young Anna.

A brutal book to say the least. I think the character dialogues are the best parts of this book and I think the author should have attempted a play here and there--perhaps approaching Chekov. What was missing from this book? ---That was a scene that one thought was definitely going to happen And that was a final visit to the general's mansion by Gregor. You may say he delt with that in the final and rough hewn leaving of a desperate Aksina--I think not because she was ever on his mind even in pitched battles or their aftermath. NOT his wife--always Aksina. The general's 8000 acres and his Czarist officer son whom Gregor beat up---should have played into the end of this novel----perhaps the sequel may have it, but it surely was missing here.

There was symbolic mood coloring in pastoral and animal discriptions- and how this author loves the color 'lilac'.

A Good read, I hope the sequel is as good----BUT the author was a revered commie---and sooner or latre the party line finds its way in to Soviet era literature--

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What common life was like in Russia during that time period

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Excellent story about Russian life in, and around, the beginning of the 1900s in the area of the lower Don river. Culturally, and politically.

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Angelina H

Just absolutely brilliant. Everyone should read it once in their life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2016

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Read this book first when I was about 18, but now at 61, I enjoyed it more than ever. I personally think this book is on a par with War and Peace (Tolstoy), which I have also re-read recently, but probably easier to read. Scholokhov's powers of description are fabulous. That and an engaging plot; a fantastic read. Have ordered the sequel, The Don flows home to the Sea, but its not on Kindle sadly, but its still nice to hold a proper book occasionally don't you think.

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Moodleprof

Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2017

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This edition is full of errors, but it didn't detract from my devouring it in just over a day. I couldn't put it down and, like the epic Lonesome Dove, I was feeling completely bereft on finishing it and wishing it would go on and on. Read it, it's fantastic!

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Bill James

The book is an interesting take on Cossack life at ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 12, 2016

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The book is an interesting take on Cossack life at the time of the revolution. In some places a bit of a pot boiler and somewhat lighter than Dostoevsky or Gogol but, in other places, with the life observation of Pushkin. The conversion to digital does have some issues but not enough to spoil the read. Overall quite positive. I will be looking forward to the next three books.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 21, 2017

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