'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read' AntonyBeevor

Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.

Everything Flowsis Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressedLife and Fate.

'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis

Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941 he became a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper,Red Star, reporting on the defence of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the consequences of the Holocaust, work collected inA Writer at War.Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of it being published for another 200 years. Grossman beganEverything Flowsin 1955 and was still working on it during his last days in hospital in September 1964.

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of the twentieth century