Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7344
EAN num: 9780316763790
ISBN number: 0316763799
Label: Little Brown & Co (T)
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 473
Printing Date: 1996-03
Publishing house: Little Brown & Co (T)
Sale Popularity Level: 628236
Studio: Little Brown & Co (T)
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The epic sequel to the best-selling Children of the Arbat follows the experiences of a Soviet tank commander in World War II as he fights his way from Siberia to Stalingrad and onward to Berlin.
Amazon.com Review:
This novel can stand alone, though the trilogy is best read in sequence. The whole makes a Tolstoy-scale epic of Soviet life, from the idealism of youth, through the confronting of reality, to a beaten disillusion. This last volume covers the bloody decade from Stalin's Terror to the turning point of World War II in 1943. Against this depressing backdrop, however, Rybakov creates romantic tension and suspense, as the reader roots for the coming together again of Sasha, the protagonist of the earlier volumes, and his still beloved Varya. Rybakov is an old-fashioned storyteller, with a keen sense of the compelling detail.
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If you haven't read Children of the Arbat and Fear, do so - now.
If you have, get this, however difficult or expensive.
This is Russian literature at its finest - and an excellent translation.
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After reading Children of the Arbat and its sequel Fear one can only express one's disappointment with the last part of the Rybakov trilogy. The ending of the story is utterly unbelievable, the characters are just cardboard figures. I guess only Joseph Stalin himself would be happy with this novel. Dust and Ashes is a fine example of "socialist realism", the genre highly appraised and promoted by Stalin and his accolites (and fortunately, only by them)
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The third novel of Rybakov's trilogy is terribly disappointing. The characters that were introduced in Children of the Arbat and Fear continue in Dust and Ashes - however, there were several "loose ends":characters and subplots from the preceeding two books that were never brought to any sort of conclusion, and in some cases weren't even addressed in the final novel. But perhaps most disappointing was the hurried fashion in which he concludes the book. (The loose ends are but a part of this sense of rushing to complete the book.) The ending is fitting, given the story line; uniquely Russian I would say. But incomparison to his previous books, this is by far the lesser of the three.
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If you want sweeping naturalistic fiction that blends the oppressiveness, madness and occasional terror of Stalinist Russia with a traditional, ultimately melodramatic love story, start with Rybakov's "Children of the Arbat" and continue through the trilogy with "Fear" and this novel. Accurately or not, these novels vividly create a sense of smothered life in Russia, with characters who represent types without becoming stereotypes. These novels are page turners in the tragic Russian tradition.
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Each of the books in the trilogy, made me feel a part of the very lives A.R. was writing about. So powerful of a writer, i wished I could read Rusion and read the text in the original form.
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