Babi yar : a document in the form of a novel : new, complete, uncensored version / Anatoly Kuznetsov ; translated by David Floyd ; introduction by Masha Gessen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuznetsov, Anatoli, 1929-1979, author.

Contributor:

Floyd, David, 1914-1997, translator.

Gessen, M., writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kuznetsov, Anatoli, 1929-1979.

Kuznetsov, Anatoli.

Massacres--Ukraine.

Massacres.

Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941.

Ukraine--History--1921-1944.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 468 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Paperback reissue edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2023.

Summary:

At the age of twelve, Anatoly Kuznetsov experienced the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, and soon began keeping a diary of the brutal occupation of Kiev that followed. Years later, he combined those notebooks with other survivors' memories to create a classic work of documentary witness in the form of a novel. When Babi Yar was first published in a Soviet magazine in 1966, it became a literary sensation, not least for its powerful and unprecedented narratives of the Nazi massacre of the city's Jews, and later Roma, prisoners of war, and other victims, at the Babi Yar ravine--one of the largest mass killings of the Holocaust. After Kuznetsov defected to Great Britain in 1969, he republished the book in a new edition that included extensive passages censored by the Soviets, along with his later reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781250883834

1250883830

OCLC:

1371437903