The Road (40 page)

Photographs © Fyodor Guber

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Cover art: Erich Hartmann, Treblinka Memorial, Poland, 1994. © Erich Hartmann/Magnum Photos; Cover design: Katy Homans

Most of the pieces in this volume are translated from the texts published in
Sobranie sochinenii v 4-h tomakh
(Moscow: Agraf, 1998). “A Small Life” and “The Old Man” are included in
V gorode Berdicheve
(Yekaterinburg: U–Faktoriya, 2005). “The Old Teacher” is available at http://www.lib.ru. Grossman’s two letters to his mother are included in Fyodor Guber,
Pamyat' i pis'ma
(Moscow: Probel, 2007), p. 78–9.

Earlier versions of some of these translations appeared in
Chtenia
("The Road"),
The New Yorker
("In Kislovodsk"), and
Prospect
("The Dog").

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich.

The road / by Vasily Grossman ; introduction by Robert Chandler ; translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Olga Mukovnikova.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-59017-361-9 (alk. paper)

I. Chandler, Robert, 1953- II. Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947- III. Mukovnikova, Olga. IV. Title.

PG3476.G7R56 2010

891.73'42—dc22

2010023048

eISBN 978-1-59017-409-8
v1.0

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