Return of the war-weary: Gjak, by Dimosthenis Papamarkos, reviewed
After a bitter conflict with the Turks, Greek soldiers finally arrive home in 1922, traumatised in sometimes unexpected ways
Vasily Grossman: eye-witness to the 20th century’s worst atrocities
Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate (completed in 1960) has been hailed as a 20th-century War and Peace. It has…
The tyrant and the cloud-dweller
The banning of Dr Zhivago in the Soviet Union had unfortunate consequences for other fine 20th-century Russian novels, says Robert Chandler
