An Armenian Sketchbook Philip Cushman romance fiction

romance fiction

lost mines and abandoned hoards lie like magnets

and gain wisdom and understanding

smouldering upon a bed of mud and sand

both ultimately restorative

An Armenian Sketchbook Philip Cushman romance fictionAn NYRB Classics Original Few writers had to confront as many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun. After the Soviet government confiscated or, as Grossman always put it, "arrested" Life and Fate,